I kind of feel this way sometimes, but some business or even non-business logic will require some inherent minimum amount of cyclomatic complexity. And there is

I kind of feel this way sometimes, but some business or even non-business logic will require some inherent minimum amount of cyclomatic complexity. And there is only so much you can do to hide it or spread it around; depending on the specifics it may actually be better to put the whole ugliness in one place I guess that is why it’s a smell and not an anti pattern, but I work in a codebase with a lot of this kinda stuff and as much as I hate the complexity required to read it, I’ve been around long enough to know why all those ifs are there and even added a few myself.