Why Your Code Refactoring is Often a Vanity Project
Let me start with a confession that might ruffle some feathers: most code refactoring I’ve witnessed in my career has been nothing more than expensive vanity projects disguised as technical necessity. There, I said it. Before you reach for your pitchforks and start typing angry comments about code quality and maintainability, hear me out. I’ve been in those meetings where a senior developer, let’s call him “Refactor Rick,” passionately argues that the entire authentication module needs to be rewritten because it’s “not following the latest patterns....
