Oh, come off it. Not every team gets to be made of 100% 10x supergenius ninja rock gods. And no one gets to be at their absolute best for every line of code th

Oh, come off it. Not every team gets to be made of 100% 10x supergenius ninja rock gods. And no one gets to be at their absolute best for every line of code they're ever going to write. Everyone, no matter how gifted, does a better job on average if the boring, obvious thing also tends to be the correct thing. Having some structure makes doing real work with real humans better, not worse. SOLID isn't an iron law, it's a heuristic. And a damn good one. "Open-minded smart people" can and will find reasons to bend and break the rule sometimes, and the more experienced one becomes the more readily they'll be able to see when the rules doesn't apply. That doesn't mean they're bad rules. Maybe I'm not open minded or smart enough, but I've seen plenty of codebases that adhered to some set of coherent architectural guidelines and codebases that didn't, and I know which subset I prefer to work on.