sorry for the non-substantive nit. because we all know what you meant.

YAGNI is about not doing work in advance. it's very confusing to say YAGNI and pruning in the same breath. it's also confusing to call this aggressive since it's been 10 years.

i wouldn't call it dead code pruning either, since the code in question here was actually reachable and used. maybe, unmaintained code pruning?