The true meaning of a General solution does not mean providing support for every kind of scenario your data may encounter, the true meaning from a functional p

The true meaning of a General solution does not mean providing support for every kind of scenario your data may encounter, the true meaning from a functional perspective is to build composable structures/mechanisms to produce the correct shape of data the problem requires. So for a near sighted programmer YAGNI would work, but for a software or machine to be really durable, it needs to be composable over a period of time. An example of this is emacs, it has kept with the passage of time because of its composable nature. Vim on the other hand is undergoing a massive rewrite project known as Neovim. This is the difference between a true general solution and a specific YAGNI based solution. The only differentiator between the two is Durability, and this durability comes at no extra cost, just the wise decision of writing software in a much more composable language solves half the durability problems.