This might not add much to the discussion, since the post is not really about dead code removal, but your woodworking shop analogy reminds me of the bakery anal

This might not add much to the discussion, since the post is not really about dead code removal, but your woodworking shop analogy reminds me of the bakery analogy at the beginninf of this old post by Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-look-wrong/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...