Same here. Been working professionally as a dev for 20 years and each year I care less and less about changing other people’s minds about architecture. Just th

Same here. Been working professionally as a dev for 20 years and each year I care less and less about changing other people’s minds about architecture. Just this year I was working with another team that wanted to move to an architecture that I thought was overengineered for their specific problems. They shared with me an article about some company that was using it. I explained my experiences with such a pattern and where the pitfalls were, hoping their lead dev would think about it or discuss the pros and cons. Well, it was met with silence. They went ahead with their plan anyway. Too many times that’s happened in the work world, so at least now I don’t invest a lot of effort into changing minds. Best advice I’ve learned these last few years is don’t tie yourself to your work. If you’re opinionated about how to do things because you love designing software, that’s great, but you’re setting yourself up to be disappointed by how things really get done.