Especially if there is a very common refactoring bug and you get a pepperoni pizza instead of a pizza with one of the most natural toppings like pineapple. But

Especially if there is a very common refactoring bug and you get a pepperoni pizza instead of a pizza with one of the most natural toppings like pineapple. But I tend to agree with the author. Sometimes verbosity is the lesser evil. No suggestion should become a dogma and whoever played some games of code golf knows that short code doesn't mean code that is easy to read. Extreme example of course. But I believe many start to optimize in this way just as a way to reduce the line count. Still, there is still room for some kind of factories or function templates (not in the c++ sense). I think a user is allowed to repeat himself but then again a user is just another arbitrary layer again. But if such helpers are to be implemented, I tend to like it in a place where the user is invoking said helpers and not on the level below that if that makes sense.