Ever heard of the broken windows theory?

Here we go: Windows is broken!

That's only a theory in the sense that gravity is a theory

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While in the meatspace, that theory don't seem to hold but is a welcome excuse for implementing all sorts of draconic laws - it verry much seems to be true in the IT world: Bad architecture and code smells tend to attract shady devs which like to write spaghetti code.