Then I don't think I see the type of meaningless variable renames you are talking about. I do see variable names about as bad as in my example though, and I see

Then I don't think I see the type of meaningless variable renames you are talking about. I do see variable names about as bad as in my example though, and I see them being fixed. They typically arise from some copy/paste where someone wanted similar logic but forgot to rename a variable. I don't see people renaming from say numberOfItems to noOfItems or similar, if that's the type of renames you're referring to. Can you give an example of a rename you are seeing?