Dangerous fix
It's a fix, but a dangerous one. If all "Bryce" did was by-pass the last developer's code to get to the original executable, he'll never know what the last guy's code was supposed to be doing. It may have been dreadful, but it wasn't there for no reason.
Chances are it was fixing, badly, a bug that will rear its head again in due course. Or adding something new that's absence will become noticed within the following year. If Bryce really wanted a gold-star, his next job would be to try to work out what the crappy code was supposed to do, and just as importantly, why.