This mentality is how we end up with overly engineered piles of dung. Instead of building something in the most simple way practical which would fulfill our req

This mentality is how we end up with overly engineered piles of dung. Instead of building something in the most simple way practical which would fulfill our requirements, we go all out. Now changing things takes longer because to do anything you have to weave through 10+ layers of opaque abstraction. No thanks.