> but each change is trivial and time to finish is predictable Until your ‘if’ soup reaches all the locations in your codebase, and now you have 10 different p

> but each change is trivial and time to finish is predictable Until your ‘if’ soup reaches all the locations in your codebase, and now you have 10 different places with too many if statements instead of one. Likely all touching slightly different things, so you can’t simply copy from one file to the other any more.