As a contrary anecdote, I once worked on a project where we had a method with a cyclomatic complexity of over 200. (The company had a tool that stopped counting

As a contrary anecdote, I once worked on a project where we had a method with a cyclomatic complexity of over 200. (The company had a tool that stopped counting at 200.) I was not allowed to change it, or even add tests to it, because it was written by the NY office and they would have complained about it. Bad programmers are everywhere.