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So what I think you’re trying to say here is paraphrasing the (apocryphal?) Einstein quote, “as simple as possible and no simpler”. I agree, you need to design

So what I think you’re trying to say here is paraphrasing the (apocryphal?) Einstein quote, “as simple as possible and no simpler”. I agree, you need to design the software to be as simple as possible, that might include building some quite complex abstractions but again the net total should be the code ends up overall being simpler.

gchamonlive 5y ago
In a nutshell. Getting "as simple as possible" right is the art, and many times we can only really know we went too far with oversimplification (or overengineering) in retrospect.