Imho code that is not touched is not living and cant evolve. If you consider evolving a part of maintaining, it's really hard to understand why touching code w

Imho code that is not touched is not living and cant evolve. If you consider evolving a part of maintaining, it's really hard to understand why touching code would ever be a bad thing. In my personal experience team should optimize for confidence - eg explanation, refactoring for confidence, automated tests - without confidence bold and fast moves are not possible.