the flip side of this is that sometimes your initial designs need to be expanded to account for something new and that's hard, leading to tech debt and hacks.

the flip side of this is that sometimes your initial designs need to be expanded to account for something new and that's hard, leading to tech debt and hacks. personally I think that's a better trade-off than implementing something complicated up-front that you don't know will work and ending up with flexibility in the wrong places, leading to tech debt and hacks.