Mixed
I approved it. Because hunting down the existing functions it should have used in our utility library would have taken me all day
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about new lines of code
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Got in the way: Generated unnecessary code instead of reusing existing functions.
… But, y'know what? I approved it. Because hunting down the existing functions it should have used in our utility library would have taken me all day. 5 years ago I would have taken the time because a PR like that would have been submitted by a new team member who didn't know the codebase well, and helping to onboard new team members is an important part of the job. …