> Now we are talking about all kinds of fancy programming stuff to try to solve problems that only exist because we don't want to repeat the same 6 line snippet

> Now we are talking about all kinds of fancy programming stuff to try to solve problems that only exist because we don't want to repeat the same 6 line snippet in a handful of different places because DRY tells us that's bad. Oooh yeaah ... I have had that exact argument in the recent code review where patch literally modified _hundreds_ of LoC across many different files just to avoid duplicating a simple 10-liner at a single place? Yeah, you read that right. A developer basically rewrote half of the existing code architecture and applied "best" OOP practices. Intention wasn't a bad one but it is unnecessary to say how incomprehensible code would have become if that patch went in in its original form. It was hard to argue against it and what would have been a 10-minute work it became a 2 or 3 week long discussion. And that is just ... bad.