You're absolutely right. This is what is meant by spaghetti code; everything is connected and you can't tell what is connected to what until you start pulling

You're absolutely right. This is what is meant by spaghetti code; everything is connected and you can't tell what is connected to what until you start pulling things out. I've only worked on one or two code bases that were truly spaghetti code and I replaced them both completely in short order.