It goes both ways. I've seen beautiful abstractions that make a lot of sense, a la DDD that saved companies a lot of money. I've seen a senior architect almo

It goes both ways. I've seen beautiful abstractions that make a lot of sense, a la DDD that saved companies a lot of money. I've seen a senior architect almost shed a tear when I told him I loved the way he used the Bridge Design pattern in a project and how easy it was to implement some feature because of it (I don't remember the example.)