I got it too the point where the standard changes took a fraction of the time to implement compared to what it would've been operating on the initial code base.

I got it too the point where the standard changes took a fraction of the time to implement compared to what it would've been operating on the initial code base. In fact, some of the functionality that I ultimately implemented would not simply have taken longer, it would have been impossible to implement without introducing world ending bugs. None of that mattered. Nothing that I ever said or did in that place meant a fucking thing to anyone.