This is a great point. Deleting code that isn’t worth the investment is a good thing. One sign of a strong engineer imo is they’re okay with throwing away code.

This is a great point. Deleting code that isn’t worth the investment is a good thing. One sign of a strong engineer imo is they’re okay with throwing away code. There’s also some level of people skills involved here and convincing your stakeholders that it’s better to sunset a feature vs rewriting it.