I am more inclined to your sentiment. Now there is no excuse for badly formatted code and being a lazy slob, and I never use the word refactor in the sense it

I am more inclined to your sentiment. Now there is no excuse for badly formatted code and being a lazy slob, and I never use the word refactor in the sense it is used here. I often _redesign_ old code to meet new requirements and to support new features, but I would not call it refactoring. I always strive to leave the code better than when I found it. But I would not name it refactoring.