Deleting code is one of the most satisfying things in the world. Puff and gone are all the worries, all the bugs, all the maintenance hassle, all the limitations that code imposed on you.
You'd be able to sum it up as different stages of the reward process:
As you learn to code, it becomes increasingly satisfying to solve problems, so you write more code, which provides more satisfaction, but it gets unwieldy quickly and you start to get lost in the spaghetti.
As you learn to abstract, it becomes increasingly satisfying to create abstractions and manipulate them afterwards, allowing you to not get lost thanks to the now beautiful mental map of your code. But at some point in time it leads to excessive abstractions and issues start to pile up, and you can't quite make sense of the map anymore because everything is a little bit too generic and doesn't carry any more meaning, and such abstractions invariably leak through the lasagna. You usually start by writing more abstractions, but this only feeds the loop.
And finally, as you learn to delete code, you get back to simplicity, and the disappearance of the mental and causality weight associated with that deleted code becomes increasingly satisfying. You start inlining code, you start repeating code, only for the repeating patterns to emerge by themselves, you start thinking about names for those, and the names come naturally. Instead of powering through, there is a state of continuous, unstoppable flow based on a loop of implementation and emergence, where a giant Rubik's cube effortlessly solves itself by throwing it in the air and falling into place.
