Yes! I think what I've come to is: Spend more time thinking about how to do something more concisely, rather than spending time thinking of how to abstract the

Yes! I think what I've come to is: Spend more time thinking about how to do something more concisely, rather than spending time thinking of how to abstract the code. Sometimes the former leads to the latter. But less code--or rather more concise code (not to be misrepresented as "fewer characters" or "everything in one line"!)--is almost always better for maintaining the code into the future.