How many times do you find yourself in the midst of a project and every change you make feels like an absolute slog?

Personally, this happens way more than I care to admit. In fact, code that I wrote more than 3 months ago may as well have been written by someone else who was also evil and out to get me. A biblically accurate angel whose only intent was to drown me in technical debt and the consequences of my own design decisions.

Some of the time refactoring is an option.