In my experience, developers that reach for design patterns recently read a design patterns book and are desperate to apply them to problems, instead of trying

In my experience, developers that reach for design patterns recently read a design patterns book and are desperate to apply them to problems, instead of trying to figure out the best solution to the problem. Design patterns (imo) should be used to get a feel for the design space that you can choose from, but it’s far from a total enumeration.