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> Nobody has the insight to build in a modular way on top of that library or system Sometimes it's less to due with lack of ability and more to do with wanting

• geerlingguy 4y ago
  And often there is already a modular system ready, but the person requesting a feature is either too lazy or doesn't know the system enough to use it (or sometimes even know it exists). This seems especially true for drive-by requests where someone on a dev team has a feature they are required to implement in XYZcorp's application. They don't know the platform well, they see the feature isn't provided out of the box, so instead of doing much research, they just hop in the issue queue and request it.
  • cestith 4y ago
    Sometimes the modular system is very flexible and straightforward. Other times the system really is modular, but makes many assumptions which make little sense to and are even difficult to foresee by someone less familiar with the overall system. See all the years of discussion over libraries vs frameworks vs complete code ecosystems. If I have a three week deadline and it takes three months to come up to speed with your system's docs and code, I'm going to ask for something without an up-front PR before I take it on myself.