Yeah, I've been there too. But the problem is that avoiding those completely and then only resorting to rewrites, costs magnitudes more and it's just as buggy.

Yeah, I've been there too. But the problem is that avoiding those completely and then only resorting to rewrites, costs magnitudes more and it's just as buggy. Many times it introduces new issues. Doing small incremental improvements is, most of the time, the best way to improve. But because in general there's no incentive to have even a base level of quality in software, the incentive is towards rewriting and dealing with all the issues after the fact. It really makes me sad.