Then Opus had the audacity to couple the JsonReader to the CsvReader so that it could parse the CSV file contents during JSON parsing ... introducing at least five long-term maintenance issues along the way.
Yeah, that's what I mean by "they're much better at reviewing and debugging than writing code". When you ask opus to review for clarity, cleanliness, and minimalism using a clean context, what does it say about that? does it fix its own idiocy?