I've done maintenance and didn't even have to wow anyone to get satisfaction. There's something deeply satisfying to me in cutting out thousands of lines of co

I've done maintenance and didn't even have to wow anyone to get satisfaction. There's something deeply satisfying to me in cutting out thousands of lines of code and no-one even noticing. I will even go back and look at that commit over the next few weeks with a feeling of peace and accomplishment. I've sometimes 'stolen' time from feature work to do that refactoring, and it's the massive reduction of complexity and TLOC that often gives me satisfaction, not delivering the feature. Don't get me wrong, I've delivered features and applications I'm proud and happy with too, but I think there's a significant minority of us who really enjoy deleting tons of bad code too.