This is very true. Having said that, even with shader I've managed to go down the rabbit hole. "Perhaps this shader can be generalized so it'll work for every v

This is very true. Having said that, even with shader I've managed to go down the rabbit hole. "Perhaps this shader can be generalized so it'll work for every vertex format...hmm, it should probably dynamically recompile then...once I'm doing that I might as well start linking arbitrary snippets of code then..." etc.