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Every company I worked for is like this. I sneak small improvements into daily work. If I call an old function, I'll often fix it while I'm there. Don't raise tickets. Don't ask. Just fix it.
I also have a shelf of a hundred fixes that I never merged. I've done the work, but the real hurdle is PR and and testing. It takes days of effort to push code that took an hour to write.
Exactly! I have the same, and sometimes I'll sneak in some fixes I have pending when I get the time to properly test it (usually in a boring meeting).
I’ve had whole projects falter because they wouldn’t get tested and a year later it was too much effort to reintegrate into the system which had moved on significantly…