It is fascinating to see how my motivation and productivity decreases while working on legacy code.

Yeah it's much easier to write new legacy code for the future than deal with the result of others having the same sentiment.

Unpopular opinion: dealing with meh legacy code is on average no harder than writing really good* future proof code.

*bug-free, maintainable, extensible, edge cases covered

@Npstr true true, additionally we can always blame prev devs legacy code for fuckups in the future