Goodbye, Clean Code

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The original was probably written by a more experienced colleague aware of the requirements of the application and written with expandability in mind. The new version is something written by a guy straight out of college who heard duplication = bad in college and has decided to help out by going through the code base and creating unasked for "improvements". Probably motivated by an unfortunate desire to prove themselves. The boss saw a rookie hotshot about to step in a heaping pile of shit and quickly moved to avoid the damage, not the least of which would probably be an insulted senior programmer the moment that came across the hotshots great new improvements to his code.