I'd rather have one codebase that's a big ball of mud than 10 mini balls of mud that combine to make one immensely complicated ball of mud. At least a stack of

I'd rather have one codebase that's a big ball of mud than 10 mini balls of mud that combine to make one immensely complicated ball of mud. At least a stack of messy method calls is much easier to debug than some data that travels through 5 different systems before it gets to the user.