We're going to use your preferred development method of TDD red-green and go at this with full belt-and-suspenders; first the belt:

God that belt and suspenders thing gives me a visceral physical reaction. Nauseating.

Yet it's so much better than the abhorrent "code smell" term that somehow stuck in the industry.

What's funny to me is that it doesn't bother me; it just seems like its personality.