The engineering practice suffers from the effect of changing for the sake of changing. It’s easy to ignore why things are the way they are or how much sweat, sacrifice, and work hours something took to build, only for the occasional reformist to dismiss it as “a mess” that needs to be changed completely. The asymmetry between construction and destruction is too underrated. Building requires creating order from chaos, lowering entropy. It demands energy, time, patience, and effort. Destruction is practically free. Every mess has a story behind it, a context, multiple constraints, and trade-offs made by people who had their good reasons, only that they were operating under different circumstances.