In a nutshell this captures my argument against functional programming, design patterns, and this whole code fetish cargo cult. I care about what the code does

In a nutshell this captures my argument against functional programming, design patterns, and this whole code fetish cargo cult. I care about what the code does, not what it looks like. If two different things compile to the same hardware instructions, then it makes no difference to me. Repeat yourself if you want. Make a bunch of indirections via factories and generics if you want. Use a bunch of ugly branching if you want. It's all so anachronistic. We have self-driving cars, VR, drones, neural nets, machines that can write code themselves, post-quantum cryptography--and you're lecturing me about the $(No One Cares) Pattern from the hottest bestseller of 1994?