Hit the nail on the head. I think it's actually a bit worse on the refactoring, yes the next snooty Sr engineer you hire will say you did it wrong. The bigger

Hit the nail on the head. I think it's actually a bit worse on the refactoring, yes the next snooty Sr engineer you hire will say you did it wrong. The bigger issue is that working on "technical debt" actually introduces bugs and decreases stability because you're wholesale changing out battle tested code for theoretically better code. Your customers will not thank you