I distrust Cloudflare so much. I have been trying to get my RSS reader on their Verified Bots list for years, but their application form appears to go nowhere.
This is interesting. But I’ve never once even noticed a police officer touching my car’s tail lights when I have been stopped. I am wondering if I was just oblivious or if it does not happen everywhere.
I am sure there are rewrites that were necessary or beneficial. But I think it’s fair to say that usually they are a mistake.
And a lot of “bad code” comes from starting to write clean code and then coming across a variety of assumptions that prove incorrect, and real-world considerations that add complexity.