You keep saying this is your lived experience, and a lot of other people are saying that it is too rare to be worth making a presumption without putting in the

You keep saying this is your lived experience, and a lot of other people are saying that it is too rare to be worth making a presumption without putting in the work to go look. What I’ll say to you now is that if you are actually looking for the reasons, and all you can find are people making your life hard for the glorification of their ego, you have a much bigger problem than whether it’s worth presuming that there is no reason for code you want to remove: You are located in a local pessimum. Consider working on a different code base. Ask yourself what is going on that you keep running into all this code written by people you disrespect so much.