Kill It with Fire

Decisions motivated by wanting to avoid rewriting code later are usually bad decisions. In general, any decision made to please or impress imagined spectators with the superficial elegance of your approach is a bad one. If you’re coming into a project where team members are fixing something that isn’t broken, you can be sure they are doing so because they are afraid of the way their product looks to other people. They are ashamed of their working, successful technology, and you have to figure out how to convince them not to be ashamed so that they can focus on fixing things that are actually broken.