> Single-digit million lines of code (~5M, let’s say) as someone working on a 60M codebase, we have very different understandings of the word "large". My team

> Single-digit million lines of code (~5M, let’s say) as someone working on a 60M codebase, we have very different understandings of the word "large". My team is leaning more towards "understand the existing code, but also try to write maintainable and readable code". Everything looks like a mess built by a thousand different minds, some of them better and a lot of them worse, so keeping consistency would just drag the project deeper into hell.