They author didn't focus on the rewriting without checking with their coworker part of the lesson, and I'm not sure why you are. It felt like they added it beca

They author didn't focus on the rewriting without checking with their coworker part of the lesson, and I'm not sure why you are. It felt like they added it because it was part of the truth and mentioning is honest, but the bulk of the article was on the actual code changes he made, why they thought it was a good software engineering as a their younger self and why they no longer think it was good software engineering now. I really don't see your point about the article being linkbait-y at all.