Succinctly put. I have observed a tangentially related correlation: The code that needs least understanding to change will be the code changed, until it isn't t

Succinctly put. I have observed a tangentially related correlation: The code that needs least understanding to change will be the code changed, until it isn't the code needing the least understanding any more. In unison they sort of tells us why pragmatism is often good when we start writing code, but how we must always try to push towards finding (good) abstractions as the work progress.