I had a developer quit after a week for something similar. One application to do bug fixes and extend. He was allowed to do refactoring but it had to stay mostl

I had a developer quit after a week for something similar. One application to do bug fixes and extend. He was allowed to do refactoring but it had to stay mostly in "experimental" branches so we could limit the risk of merging changes into production code. The guy just wanted to re-write everything he saw and refused to consider why we might not want massive changes to a codebase he saw as terrible. We were willing to let him refactor all he wanted as long as we tested and released the code in a controlled manner. If this guy is working on 15 different apps, with no guidance about scheduling or priorities he is in an untenable position.