Comment by tarsinge
5 years ago
I’m not sure, you can become the newcomer yourself when you have to come back to parts of your code base months later. My experience writing simpler code has been pretty successful to respond to customers wanting random new features.
That's true, but it's not true in situations where you build on more abstract concepts that a newcomer wouldn't be able to understand.
e.g. I'll understand my monad transformers in a year, but a new hire with no Haskell experience will not.