This x1000, we are not writing code for ourselves, we write code for our employers, and it behooves us all to keep it as simple and maintainable as possible. Wi

This x1000, we are not writing code for ourselves, we write code for our employers, and it behooves us all to keep it as simple and maintainable as possible. Will you be there in 10 years to explain it, will you want to if you are? If this is your open source project or whatever do as you please, otherwise follow the principal of least abstraction.