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I don't know if I would have passed the exact question, but something like this is also in my wheelhouse. The other thing that I value very highly is consistency in any given code base. However things are already done, is how I'll keep doing them, unless there is a good reason to change. And to your point, that reason cannot be I don't understand the code. IMO, too often people want to make big changes w/o understanding (b/c understanding can be hard), and end up missing the reasons why the code was hard to begin with.


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