That's a really good point. The cleanest code I've ever written (and got complimented on by others) was when I was the main dev on a rewrite of a legacy system

That's a really good point. The cleanest code I've ever written (and got complimented on by others) was when I was the main dev on a rewrite of a legacy system. It's easy to focus on clean/well-tested code when you don't have to worry about business decisions and customers' main concern is that nothing changes, even existing bugs!