> I can usually tell what type of type of experience devs have by the snarky, dismissive responses I've gotten on various internet forums over the last two deca

> I can usually tell what type of type of experience devs have by the snarky, dismissive responses I've gotten on various internet forums over the last two decades. e.g. "Oh but you would never have this problem if you performed proper code review" - Random_Rockstar_Dev_254 Yes, and the flip side to this is the other kind of senior that you mention in your comment: the one that refuses to believe that things can be done better. It's hard to find the right balance between wanting to write better code and pragmatically dealing with the realities of a huge, messy legacy codebase with tons of bad decision - you can't fix everything (and certainly not at once), so you have to choose your battles wisely.