If you say Refactoring One more time..

I'll PUNCH YOU IN THE BINRAT. GOD SHUT UP.

Yes you can refactor parts of code. Yes, but it takes time and in large projects where everyone depends on that interface it is going to take a lot of work. Also for the love of god, 30KLOC IS NOT A LARGE PROJECT.

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Great idea, except when people rewrite things, they tend not to pay attention to the fixes and end up breaking things and reexposing old flaws.

"what's this 40 line thing? we obviously won't be needing that!"
*next day*
"hey, where did all the data go?"
"OH SHI-"