Other people have put it very well here.  Welcome to the job.  Beautiful code from scratch is for your own time.  You&#x27;ll see that you&#x27;ll learn this &quot;monolithic&quot; code base over time and that eventually you will play it like a violin and it will be somewhat enjoyable.<p>If you want to write code from scratch and just blaze forward all the time join a startup.  Less guaranteed job security but more fun for sure.