> To me that is really rewarding Agreed. Many years ago I spent two years on a greenfield project that got slowly but surely worse, which was very frustrating.

> To me that is really rewarding Agreed. Many years ago I spent two years on a greenfield project that got slowly but surely worse, which was very frustrating. Now I'm working on something that's seven years old and has been through a lot of hands, but every small improvement feels good, and when I need to do the occasional hack, I don't feel bad because on the whole it's better than it used to be.