People try to change things because they want to see something new in the real world my personal feeling on this is rather, removing someone elses code is like

People try to change things because they want to see something new in the real world my personal feeling on this is rather, removing someone elses code is like dismissing their work. and generally i don't want to do that. if it is not clearly a bug, then i'd hesitate. someone wants this feature. taking it away would not be nice to them. it may be similar to the problem of design by committee. everyone wants to get their favorite features in, and we are more concerned about our relationship to our colleagues than the end result. here, we can solve this in a way to make everyone happy, but without stopping to ask if removing that mis-feature would actually make anyone unhappy. thinking further, i think this is also a problem with personal ownership of code or features instead of team ownership. this feature is owned by X, i can't remove it without his permission, or without a discussion in a meeting. leaving it in and working around it is the path of least resistance