You missed the point that I probably made too subtly, that it went from being a set size to a variable size. Yes, we did have some terrible non-DRY code and it

You missed the point that I probably made too subtly, that it went from being a set size to a variable size. Yes, we did have some terrible non-DRY code and it would have been a little easier to make the change if not for that. But going from same size all the time to different size every time was never going to be as easy as changing the value of a constant.