It very often is. Perhaps "useless" was the wrong word the GP used. "valued" may be better. It's fairly common for very useful/valuable code to be discarded b

It very often is. Perhaps "useless" was the wrong word the GP used. "valued" may be better. It's fairly common for very useful/valuable code to be discarded because the engineer (or his management) failed to articulate that value to senior leaders as well as someone else who had inferior code.