That’s the behavior of a junior engineer though. It’s a sign of an inferiority complex where any change feels like some kind of judgement on your ability to write it “correctly” the first time.
You are not your code, the code you wrote is not representative of you. Nobody who rewrites your code thinks that either.
You’re on a team working to build something larger than yourself. You’re not a bunch of painters sitting with your own easels in a room hoping to tape all of your paintings together in the end.
The best engineering teams I’ve ever worked on were groups of people that had no issues at all modifying each other’s code because we all trusted each other to do the right thing. The worst were the ones where each module had one “owner” who handled all of the changes to their module and “nobody else’s”.
You are not your code, the code you wrote is not representative of you. Nobody who rewrites your code thinks that either.
You’re on a team working to build something larger than yourself. You’re not a bunch of painters sitting with your own easels in a room hoping to tape all of your paintings together in the end.
The best engineering teams I’ve ever worked on were groups of people that had no issues at all modifying each other’s code because we all trusted each other to do the right thing. The worst were the ones where each module had one “owner” who handled all of the changes to their module and “nobody else’s”.