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Note: Added Red flag trigger words to description > ## Red flag trigger words > On encounter of any of these phrases in codebase, one is likely to be dealing...

Hear hear: elimination of shared global state is the current *Team Technical Focus* (TTF).

Nit: a bit better PR description would be appreciated :) The underlying problem, and how it is solved is not that apparent.

More effort would be appreciated for why and how refactoring is happening :)

This PR adds features in orbit of fairly new code that holds a higher standard for unit-testing. Regrettably, these new features are not unit tested, hurting this higher standard. Aspirationally,...

Shout for smaller commits :)