Who Else Has Inherited a Codebase With Zero Comments and a Prayer?

A developer inherits a 'small fix' on a payment service and descends into a codebase full of ghost functions, undeletable dead code, and commit messages that just say 'idk.' The real insight: bad documentation isn't laziness — it's deadlines, in-the-moment clarity that evaporates, and the human cost of context that walks out the door with the original dev.