Add to that it is a lot easier to write new code than understand existing code base. People nag about previous code base not because it is bad but that they don

Add to that it is a lot easier to write new code than understand existing code base. People nag about previous code base not because it is bad but that they don't want to spend time learning it. More often than not I see "code quality" as an excuse for being lazy or generic blanket argument that you cannot refute because "code quality".