Comment by schindlabua

I probably spend 30% of time on refactoring. Deduplicating common things different people have done, adding seperating layers between old shitty code and the fancy new abstractions, adding friction to some areas to discourage crossing module boundaries, that sort of thing.

For some reason new devs keep telling me how easy it is to implement features.

Really wonder why that is. The managers keep telling me that refactoring is a nice-to-have thing and not necessary and maybe we have time next sprint.

You just have to do it without telling anyone, it improves velocity for everyone. It's architecture work on the small scale.