Oddly, I've worked at places where they PREFERRED minimized changes to bugs. i.e. "You made a whole new method to deal with this problem, is there a smaller fix

Oddly, I've worked at places where they PREFERRED minimized changes to bugs. i.e. "You made a whole new method to deal with this problem, is there a smaller fix?" Thankfully most places I've been at -prefer- a smaller fix even if it takes a little longer to figure out.