> But it could have been better for no additional effort. Not if it was already written. I don't know anything about this particular codebase, but one thing I

> But it could have been better for no additional effort. Not if it was already written. I don't know anything about this particular codebase, but one thing I have learned over the years is that when you are tempted to say "such and such decision was stupid" in a production codebase, you are almost always missing something.