Your first sentence was, I'm afraid, very much not a universal experience. Your second is quite possibly true, but would have required experimentation to be su

Your first sentence was, I'm afraid, very much not a universal experience. Your second is quite possibly true, but would have required experimentation to be sure of, and at some point "doing the thing that might be overkill but will definitely work" becomes a more effective use of developer time, especially when you have a groaning production system with live users involved.