The only good code is no code. All lines of code will decay, teams will move on, assumptions will change, refactoring efforts will be non-exhaustive, dominant s

The only good code is no code. All lines of code will decay, teams will move on, assumptions will change, refactoring efforts will be non-exhaustive, dominant skill sets and experience in the industry will shift. This is fairly tired conversation and while superficially interesting, there is simply no way to define good code except through local consensus of the people writing and reading the code. But that's as far as it will go, and time will will take what's owed to it.