My last experience with this, in the section of code I had to navigate for my first ticket at …

My last experience with this, in the section of code I had to navigate for my first ticket at startup X we had some code that was querying the same tables multiple times unnecessarily. We were also using a highly bespoke (imo) code library with a relatively small following on github but this library permeated the entire codebase and dictated the way things had to be done. I tried to just make my changes by touching the code as little as possible, but avoiding the most outstanding inefficiencies. I thought of my changes as a small oasis of sanity in a desert of madness. In that first PR the seniors tore me a new one. It turned out there was a v2 of "the right way of doing things" that I had to learn about and then write my code to conform to. v2 had it's own issues, though was perhaps not as bad as v1. Later on when I became more influential I was able to successfully advocate to management to change many things to my liking, including axing the beloved exotic library that distinguished our codebase. …