A general strategy for improving something that's working: make it more what it wants to be.

The "wants to be" is about finding the second-order goals, the resonance in the system.

Aligned with the aspirations of the system, not its tactical wants.

The users of the system are leaving constant hints about what the system wants, you just need to distil it.

This strategy works for any system.

It works especially well for codebases and product development.