Bold move.. Hopefully you're not getting calls in 10 years when stuff breaks and you're at a different company

I wish I was working on your stuff back when I supported stinky 2008 T-SQL where everything was dynamic and sequential. I would have called you just for moral support

dynamic SQL. I remember those days. I once got criticized by colleagues for "breaking" a dynamic SQL search query - you know the one - because I realized that it wasn't building most of the query. I have no idea how it worked, but I made it put out actually valid SQL and it took forever. I forget if we rolled that back. We were using MS TFS, so probably not haha

Oh god this turned into a vent session

I think back of what I left behind. And I feel bad.

But then I feel better because I remember the reason I left was that we outgrew our processes and codebase and we desperately needed a restructure but i got no support in doing so.

I bitched for years that it was a continuity risk and a performance nightmare. But no. "Deliver more features. Add more junk for use cases that brought us no business value." Never consider governance or security. Never consider best practices. Just more.

I knew eventually something bad would happen and I would be thrown under the bus. So I split. It was a good decision.

But yeah. Seone inherited a lot turd code

We all pretend our code doesn’t stink

For myself... Maybe for 5 solid minutes lol

General life advice: sometimes its more cost-effective to start over from scratch