Code just tends to live longer than developers often anticipate. They put more trust in their organizations than is warranted about how much time they will be g

Code just tends to live longer than developers often anticipate. They put more trust in their organizations than is warranted about how much time they will be given later to go back and clean things up. (This probably happens because the original work is over-estimated and then the project is delivered under in a crunch, instead of having some breathing time to clean things up.) But again, this is all situational, you may work in different circumstances than I ever have.