Disagree. What you say works at a small startup. Absolutely. My reality and lots of other people at companies with larger code bases: you need to constantly l

Disagree. What you say works at a small startup. Absolutely. My reality and lots of other people at companies with larger code bases: you need to constantly look at code you have never seen before in one of many languages used at your company using one framework or another that is out of date by years or just came around the corner and you just heard the name of for the first time. This is the reality of many an architect or team lead or principal engineer. Of course you will say: why make everything better for them, works fine for me who I only ever work in language X with framework Y? I agree that makes sense for the you of now. Why care? Think about the future you. The principal engineer you. The architect you. Heck even just the 9 months from now you when you have moved on to the next framework. Never mind any other changes.