What's your story when you had to scrape your code, for the better, when you went working for days and had to remove it all?

I've had to toss out an entire ecosystem from frustration but that's a story for another day. ;P

This month alone I dumped most of my experience of Java EE to move to Spring/Hibernate in the hopes of an easier to use framework. I was right.

....Guess I don't dump code as much as entire projects. Code is salvageable at the end of the day.

Many great devs will tell you the best and most satisfying commits are those that delete hundreds of lines of code

My current project git repo stats looks like a horizontal vase.. each push i delete a few hundreds lines of code and write another few hunders in place.. i felt a little bad about this for a while, but i am starting to see the fact that i'm not standing in place, i just focus on perfecting what i have done previously.

I think it's an important mindset to focus on perfecting code rather than simply add more

This should in fairness be used in the rarest of rare cases.

99% of the time, it's easier to fix one mistake at a time and clean it up, rather than throw it out and rewrite, raining introduction of new bugs.

Truuuee. Some of my team members hate me for removing their code sometimes [ after asking them to change]. They don't see the bigger picture. 🤷🏻‍♀️

A competitors code?

Then, yes.