Especially when getting into a codebase that is not yours you are tempted to think "why dont i just rewrite this in a better an cleaner way". Then you go on tod

Especially when getting into a codebase that is not yours you are tempted to think "why dont i just rewrite this in a better an cleaner way". Then you go on todo that and fall into most of the pitfalls the original author fell in before, have to rethink every idea behind and it usually is alot more work than you think. That said it depends heavily on the size of the project and a bunch of other things, for a 3 month old project it might make sense.