One of the challenges with proposing the rewrite of a complex codebase is that it requires the person planning and executing the rewrite to understand the requi

One of the challenges with proposing the rewrite of a complex codebase is that it requires the person planning and executing the rewrite to understand the requirements and the source of complexity. I used to think that there existed some queries that would benefit just from being rewritten from first principles. And then someone rewrote them incredibly naively. That is no better than the original!