Sorry, the metaphor was from R/B trees to flamboyantly unnecessary flip kicks - but R/B trees are quite necessary a lot of times, whereas showoff flip kicks exi

Sorry, the metaphor was from R/B trees to flamboyantly unnecessary flip kicks - but R/B trees are quite necessary a lot of times, whereas showoff flip kicks exist purely for showing off. There's more than enough fluff used in software engineering with the sole purpose of being fancy ("enterprise software patterns" come to mind), but R/B trees are not part of it.