Sometimes complexity is intractable, sure, but I'd argue that on the balance, inheritance makes it worse. Programming to object interfaces (whether or not they'

Sometimes complexity is intractable, sure, but I'd argue that on the balance, inheritance makes it worse. Programming to object interfaces (whether or not they're known at compile time) brings most of the same benefits without having to pigeonhole everything into trees and potentially rewrite tons of code when the design changes.