In maintaining verbose codebases I often find that certain refactors or paths to improvement are closed off, because they just wouldn't be worth that much typin

In maintaining verbose codebases I often find that certain refactors or paths to improvement are closed off, because they just wouldn't be worth that much typing. It may make it easier to understand why something is going wrong, and that's usually the bulk of the intellectual work, but it also means the constructs around which the program was initially designed will be its constructs forever.