If I inherited a crappy code base I want to get to a place where I can safely refactor as quickly as possible. I dont need indirect commentary on how crap the

If I inherited a crappy code base I want to get to a place where I can safely refactor as quickly as possible. I dont need indirect commentary on how crap the code base is in the form of tests that are annoying to write because they require 100 mock objects. It's not telling me anything new and it's annoying the hell out of me while it does it. If the codebase is good, I also dont need that commentary. I can read. Indeed maybe the real message that unit tests are sending by being intolerant of bad code is that they are also the bad code.