I definitely agree that like these things aren't going to cause any sort of lasting brain damage or something. It gets overwrought. I think that the taxonomy t

I definitely agree that like these things aren't going to cause any sort of lasting brain damage or something. It gets overwrought. I think that the taxonomy thing is kind of harmful though in that, as far as I can tell anyway, it only seems to be now that a lot of programmers are coming around to the idea that modelling things are taxonomies is less useful than other techniques. Some code sins are pretty easy to cleanup: if someone writes a function that's doing too many things, it's not too hard to break it up, or if someone names things badly, usually it's enough just to rename it to better concepts. But deep inheritance hierarchies are often a massive pain to clean up, if you can even clean it up at all (outside packages might come to depend on your weird structure for instance).