Side projects are meant to be challenging because they are a learning opportunity so it's possible that they end up over-engineered sometimes. You can always re

Side projects are meant to be challenging because they are a learning opportunity so it's possible that they end up over-engineered sometimes. You can always refactor the parts that are over-engineered. There's a very fine line between highly-engineered and over-engineered. One of my favourite projects is Kubernetes; some might consider it over-engineered but it's extremely powerful. "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"