My complaint with DRY - sometimes it's just significantly easier to learn a codebase or learn the problems that led to its structure/abstraction by just writing

My complaint with DRY - sometimes it's just significantly easier to learn a codebase or learn the problems that led to its structure/abstraction by just writing many of the underlying components yourself. Whether that code goes into the codebase is somewhat irrelevant from a learning perspective. On top of that, when 95% of the code you work with is based on a "Minimal Viable Product" (the bane of my existence), assumptions will probably be made incorrectly, or in a way that adds significant technical/organizational debt. By doing it yourself, the original assumptions can be put into a different light and can help reduce all sorts of debt in the future.