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> For a lot of people, "fixing" means adding code to make it work.

What if the fix requires deleting a single line of code?

Is the additive fix to enshroud it in if (0) { } ?

What I saw in these cases, the result was a few levels removed from the root cause and they'd add the same workaround to like 5 different places (and miss one or two) instead of tracking it back to the origin where the fix was that simple.

Usually something more subtle like adding an early return somewhere before the offending line, or inheriting from that class and blanking that method, or something along those lines.

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