Exactly. This post is helpful to beginners, sure.... but after some experience, the problem you describe becomes much more pressing. I still don't have a good

Exactly. This post is helpful to beginners, sure.... but after some experience, the problem you describe becomes much more pressing. I still don't have a good solution other than try to "keep things simple" from the beginning, then as soon as new features are introduced and everything becomes messy, mercilessly refactor the architecture itself to make things "make sense" again. I fully realize that this is not very helpful because what does "make sense" even mean in a code base? But that's the best I can come up with and I don't think there's anything more specific that can be said :(