Ah yes, the architectural equivalent of that random 200-line function written by a dev who left the company 5 years ago. The stairway to nowhere isn't just bizarre—it's load-bearing code in physical form!
This is exactly how legacy codebases work. You touch that weird variable declaration that seems to do absolutely nothing? Entire production environment bursts into flames. That's why comments like // Don't delete this or everything breaks. I don't know why.
are basically sacred texts.
The true horror isn't the broken staircase—it's that somewhere in your codebase right now, there's something just as structurally questionable keeping everything from collapsing.