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    My advice would be to delay any improvement (except for fixing
    regressions) until you are at the *start* of a development phase.

We're talking about three kinds of cases: fixing old bugs, fixing new
bugs, and changes that are not bug fixes.  You're grouping the first
case with the third; I think it belongs with the second.

I think it is misleading to describe bug fixes as "improvements".
That word suggests something optional, and bug fixes are not optional.