Every team has one. The file nobody wants to touch.
It's usually not even that long. It's just old enough, tangled enough, and load-bearing enough that everyone's quietly agreed to leave it alone unless it's on fire.
Mine is a 200-line utils file, and somewhere in the middle is this:
function formatData(data) { return formatDataHelper(data); } function formatDataHelper(data) { return formatDataHelperFinal(data); } function formatDataHelperFinal(data) { return data; } Three functions. Zero transformation. I don't know who needed this or why, but I'm too scared to delete it in case something, somewhere, depends on the ceremony.
What's yours? Function name and crime optional but encouraged.