In the abstract, sure - it's not uncommon for projects to start to become consumed by their own infrastructure. But I've never seen X-macro enum stuff contribut

In the abstract, sure - it's not uncommon for projects to start to become consumed by their own infrastructure. But I've never seen X-macro enum stuff contribute to that. (This does of course presuppose that you really want to be able to always get the string name of an enum values. I've found this to be reliably the case, if only for logging purposes, but I've only got my own experience to go on.)