Only if you don't care about long-term. Those things are not "platitudes", those are lessons learned from the experience keeping large systems maintainable. (t

Only if you don't care about long-term. Those things are not "platitudes", those are lessons learned from the experience keeping large systems maintainable. (that said, there are plenty of systems where long-term term does not really matter, as well as cases when good rules are taken to absurd levels)