I don't disagree with that sentiment for use during development; but for a long-lived application I don't think it's nearly as big a deal. I don't know about y

I don't disagree with that sentiment for use during development; but for a long-lived application I don't think it's nearly as big a deal. I don't know about you, but I've personally found that after a few months of working on an application the models tend to be pretty stable.