yep. Causes of this I've seen: - sunk cost fallacy - not spending enough time to understand the codes behaviour (and its side effects) - code being written

yep. Causes of this I've seen: - sunk cost fallacy - not spending enough time to understand the codes behaviour (and its side effects) - code being written so it becomes hard to understand its behaviour and any side effects. - trying to "win the PR game" by avoiding refactoring - giving up on refactoring because thinking is too hard