> if you want to make a code base more minimal, have a POC and some details worked out for when the opportunity presents itself.
Why would you want to do that? You will not get the cream for such work. From experience, you'll never get recognition for these things, you will never get paid more and most certainly they may dump more work at you.
Taking initiative and improving something never pays off to you.
Unless you are the type of person that looks out of the window at the company car park and sees board member in a branch new Lambo and then say to yourself proudly "I did that".
And this is the reason that at one point, Google has 4 different messaging apps and presented 3 at one presentation. No one gets promoted by improving an existing service
Why would you want to do that? You will not get the cream for such work. From experience, you'll never get recognition for these things, you will never get paid more and most certainly they may dump more work at you.
Taking initiative and improving something never pays off to you.
Unless you are the type of person that looks out of the window at the company car park and sees board member in a branch new Lambo and then say to yourself proudly "I did that".