Well, I think the GP is just saying that it's all the more tempting in that circumstance. If it looks like nobody's breathing down your neck, you might be more

Well, I think the GP is just saying that it's all the more tempting in that circumstance. If it looks like nobody's breathing down your neck, you might be more willing to risk a rewrite. And we love writing code so much that I think we've all heard the siren song of starting afresh.