While my C is familiar yet rusty enough to raise an eyebrow at this post and not elaborate better than the other comments in this thread - stuff like this I fee

While my C is familiar yet rusty enough to raise an eyebrow at this post and not elaborate better than the other comments in this thread - stuff like this I feel is a sign of a mentality I often see in software that goes roughly like “this piece of software doesn’t do what I think it should do therefore it is bad.” I used to think like this but find it more valuable to think more in the mindset “this may have been useful to somebody or else it wouldn’t have been written this way” (which really falls apart with enterprise software sometimes I am aware) which allows me to think more critically about what I am implementing.