> refactoring into a fetish (honestly there are people at my dayjob who have been "refactoring" the entire 3 years i've been here) and now hes blogged multiple

> refactoring into a fetish (honestly there are people at my dayjob who have been "refactoring" the entire 3 years i've been here) and now hes blogged multiple times about platform teams Side point here… I absolutely love refactoring sometimes. Like taking a messy chunk of code with deeply nested conditionals a d simplifying it, which makes it more readable and extendable. You also have very clear requirements as well (whatever the original code did). There are few things in software development that bring me more joy than that. But its often not necessary. And furthermore, refactoring is often not of that type. Sometimes people rewrite things because they don’t understand how they work (and writing is easier than reading). Or because they completely misjudge the value of the refactor.