It's not just extremely DRY stuff that can be problematic. I work in a non-abstracted code base, but all that really means is every time someone wanted to do s

It's not just extremely DRY stuff that can be problematic. I work in a non-abstracted code base, but all that really means is every time someone wanted to do something they simply wrote their own way of doing it. Needless to say it's suboptimal to work in on the best of days. People like to deride one way of doing things vs another but in reality pretty much every approach to software development and architecture can be amazing or hellish depending on the aggregate quality of the developers, their management and the lines of communication between them. TL;DR - Bad code is bad no matter the paradigm and all paradigms can be made awful.