No, excising unused code blocks is a solved problem. The trick is to identify code that is used, but shouldn’t be. I mean identifying features with a negative

No, excising unused code blocks is a solved problem. The trick is to identify code that is used, but shouldn’t be. I mean identifying features with a negative return on investment, features that you should avoid building. What makes the problem even harder is to consider not only the developer hours, but the opportunity cost of not building a different, more valuable feature.