The philosophical horror of maintaining legacy code summarized perfectly. What starts as a quick ticket to "just fix one small bug" turns into an existential crisis when you realize the code was written by someone who left the company 8 years ago and apparently coded while having a stroke. Soon you're the one staring back from the void, muttering "it works, don't touch it" to the next poor soul.
Nietzsche would've been a great tech lead. He'd understand why we add comments like "// Don't delete this or everything breaks. I don't know why."