> Keeping it simple requires periodic refactoring / code deletion The equivalent in medicine is "Always question the established diagnoses / management plan du

> Keeping it simple requires periodic refactoring / code deletion The equivalent in medicine is "Always question the established diagnoses / management plan during a new admission". And just like the periodic refactoring mentioned here, it's a lofty idea, but without incentives, investment, and/or infrastructure to support or enforce such reviews, it almost never actually happens in practice while one is busy with the daily grind of things. Which is how you end up with people taking drug A to counteract drug B which was given years ago to alleviate the symptoms of drug C which it turns out you didn't even really need in the first place.