I always envy people who can work on something that can be expressed with math or some other kind of consistent logic. Most company problems are inherently messy and you just end up with a litany of convoluted code.
What problem could possibly exist that only could be implemented in a convoluted way?
Sounds more like: me and my team made trade offs that were, in retrospect, bad and now we don't know how to transform our code into a new program will fulfills the same requirements but is easier to inspect and understand.
Really? There are entire industries which only work on "messy problems." ie game dev: implement a controller where jumping is both responsive and fun.
I pity people who have to work with SOAP or Salesforce.