This passable advice at a scale that probably 99.999% of people will never need. I've worked on very popular systems, very old systems, and very popular and ve

This passable advice at a scale that probably 99.999% of people will never need. I've worked on very popular systems, very old systems, and very popular and very old systems and I've never been at this scale. When you're not at some massively huge scale, this advice is mostly terrible. You should do exactly the opposite.