I agree it sounds a bit “painful”. But I think on the plus side it was very easy for you to reason about the tooling to get your simple solution going. Thinki

I agree it sounds a bit “painful”. But I think on the plus side it was very easy for you to reason about the tooling to get your simple solution going. Thinking more of: It is great that you can kind of apply “Dependency inversion of the tooling” without jumping to too many hoops to solve your problem.