Haha, you mustn't know many software engineers :-)

I know plenty who have exactly this instinct, and would do it if they could get paid to do it, and the calamity that ensues would always be other people's responsibility and failure.

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Something I find stunning though is that no software engineer would think it's a good idea to go in and just refactor the entire codebase without first studying it deeply to understand how it functions, yet they think somehow it would be smart to elect commies that want to do exactly that.