I get what he’s saying, but definitely several gotchas. The main project I work on these days has code that definitely isn’t the shortest path already checked

I get what he’s saying, but definitely several gotchas. The main project I work on these days has code that definitely isn’t the shortest path already checked in to main and running in prod. I’m that guy- set up ci/cd, apm, upgraded frameworks, and am working on major refactor. I tell management we can move faster on features and bugfixes if we can reduce the complexity of existing code. But I do struggle with how far to take that. I worry I’m getting too deep and need to focus on features.