This was prescient back then. Because the Visual Studio mindset was all about patterns and conforming to patterns, the IDE behaved as though you were only a pat

This was prescient back then. Because the Visual Studio mindset was all about patterns and conforming to patterns, the IDE behaved as though you were only a patterns-based programmer. It wants to force you to follow _their_ patterns. And in that, the VS juggernaut of code-generation has enlarged so colossally that you need only start a new REST API project to see the mind-numbing amounts of DTO objects and code required for layer after layer of interfaces/controllers etc for a single dataset. If a single dataset from a single table in your SQL Server database requires so much code, isn't it time we rethought the _concept_ behind the _need_ for code-generation - especially in the IDE?