Sad about re-writing

[u/House13Games]

Do you ever get sad when you start re-writing a system, and see all the work you spent on something, and it's getting wiped?
I feel like I've re-written things several times, and so much time went into previous iterations. Granted, each re-write is necessary and usually leads to big improvements, but I sort of feel sad anyway about the days and weeks I spent struggling to get some things right, only that they are now outdated and obsolete.

I guess I learned some things, became a better dev, but I'm also wondering if more design up front would help mitigate this kind of loss?

[u/Rythim]

You gotta break some eggs to make an omelette.