Sort the smell before choosing the refactor

Sort each smell by the design problem it most strongly signals. Bloaters Change preventers Dispensables Couplers A 90-line method where every new rule adds another nested branch A class that owns validation, persistence, formatting, and delivery A pricing-rule change requires edits in eight unrelated files Every new notification type requires a matching new formatter, sender, and mapper class A legacy branch is impossible after last year's migration The same tax threshold appears in checkout, renewal, and invoice export Tax code reaches through order, customer, account, profile, and address A service pulls many fields from another object to do that object's…

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