"It feels good" - I think that is a really important point! Overzealous DRY'ing is like a game. Every few tokens you save by clever reuse is a small victory. So

"It feels good" - I think that is a really important point! Overzealous DRY'ing is like a game. Every few tokens you save by clever reuse is a small victory. So it is easy to lose sense of the big picture. Programmers often like logical games and challenges, but it is dangerous to treat development like that. We should be weary of micro-optimizations for "elegance" which actually hurt the larger-scale maintainability of the system.