That’s what you should do with all serialization, but everyone always thinks it’s a good idea to tie the model object to the serializer object at the beginning

That’s what you should do with all serialization, but everyone always thinks it’s a good idea to tie the model object to the serializer object at the beginning of a project, and by the time you are ready to build a time machine to kill the person who made that mistake, it’s much too late to do anything but rewrite the whole thing.