Yep, fully agree here. Some companies seem to consider the word 'refactor' to be profane language, and I think that's a real shame. In my experience it's those

Yep, fully agree here. Some companies seem to consider the word 'refactor' to be profane language, and I think that's a real shame. In my experience it's those companies that end up with mountains of technical debt and regressions each cycle. Allowing your engineers the freedom to truly own and maintain the code they're responsible for will necessarily result in refactors that sometimes even include rewrites and data migrations. On the surface and in the short term this seems risky. In the medium-to-longer term I think it results in happier employees, more confidence in the solutions and faster longer-term velocity.