To be fair, it’s often difficult to identify the important problems when the code is very messy. I don’t know if that’s just my hole-ridden brain, but sometimes

To be fair, it’s often difficult to identify the important problems when the code is very messy. I don’t know if that’s just my hole-ridden brain, but sometimes after I clean up a piece of code it unlocks a new level of understanding and lets me spot issues that seemed completely invisible beforehand. It’s why when programming I put a lot of effort into code formatting and structure (eg. function extraction and inlining, and other transformations that don’t alter behavior).