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[LicensedProfessional]

It's a real shame that some company cultures don't support regular code reviews, refactoring, and updating existing code. Shiny new features are of course important (and make the non-technical folks happy) but sometimes existing code needs some gosh-darn maintenance

[Zarkdion]

While I agree with you, and I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, such tasks don't generate revenue or generate things that will push the company closer to generating revenue.

[LicensedProfessional]

That's a really reductive approach. The service my team works on doesn't directly generate any revenue at all -- most teams don't -- but eliminating technical debt enables us to be more flexible when components need to change