I've worked for a lot of customers as a developer, I can count on 0 hands the number of times "actively cleaning the code base" would have approved by a stakeholder, especially if there is a budget assigned to the project.
I've worked for a lot of customers as a developer, I can count on 0 hands the number of times "actively cleaning the code base" would have approved by a stakeholder, especially if there is a budget assigned to the project.