Sure, there's a tendency, even among relatively senior developers, to want to rewrite things to make them better, and it's certainly faster to put a band aid on it if you need to ship something fast.
The thing is though that technical debt and feature creep (away from flexibility anticipated by original design) are real, and sometimes a rewrite or refactor is the right thing to do - necessary so that simple things remain simple to add, and to able to continue shipping fast. It just takes quite a bit of experience to know when to NOT rewrite/refactor and when to do it.
The thing is though that technical debt and feature creep (away from flexibility anticipated by original design) are real, and sometimes a rewrite or refactor is the right thing to do - necessary so that simple things remain simple to add, and to able to continue shipping fast. It just takes quite a bit of experience to know when to NOT rewrite/refactor and when to do it.