Absolutely. Tangent but... I've long thought that "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is sort of a waste of breath... not because it's wrong but b

Absolutely. Tangent but... I've long thought that "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is sort of a waste of breath... not because it's wrong but because over-engineering is a far greater problem today than premature optimization. Over-engineering is a plague in modern software. Most of the failures due to technical debt that I've seen involved cases where "smart" developers built swiss army chainsaws to do things that required a hammer. This also often results in products that require orders of magnitude more resources than they should, which makes cloud vendors like Amazon and Digital Ocean a lot of money I guess.