Google does refactoring, but you’re expected to sell the idea, plan its roll out, and measure its impact... and then bring the codebase into a consistent state.

Google does refactoring, but you’re expected to sell the idea, plan its roll out, and measure its impact... and then bring the codebase into a consistent state. I would rather things be consistently “wrong” than inconsistently right. You can assign work to teams to complete, but you must drive the effort and gain buy in. Otherwise it’s not actually worth refactoring.