The luxury of being able to design every system you work on isn't shared by many. Being able to hold the details of a complex process is one of the key traits

The luxury of being able to design every system you work on isn't shared by many. Being able to hold the details of a complex process is one of the key traits that will allow you to succeed with legacy codebases or difficult languages. You can try to refactor everything into a perfect state but business isn't going to wait.