Comment by Cthulhu_

I'm sure I can reduce the code size of the codebase I inherited by half if I go ham on it, but it's 150K LOC of poorly written JS and PHP (like, really poorly, I could provide The Daily Wtf with a dozen articles I'm sure) and I'd rather spend my time on the rebuild.

Of course, my manager is telling me to keep adding features to the old codebase. Sigh.