"Preparatory Refactoring says that you should first refactor to make a change easy, and then make the change. " Amen. I'll be refactoring something and a cowo

"Preparatory Refactoring says that you should first refactor to make a change easy, and then make the change. " Amen. I'll be refactoring something and a coworker will say "Wow you did that fast." and I'll tell them I'm not done... those PRs were just to prepare for the final work. Sometimes after all my testing I'll even leave the "prepared" changes in production for a bit just to be 100% sure something strange wasn't missed. THEN the real changes can begin.