“Everything not impossible is trivial.” - Mathematics. That said, yeah, it’s frustrating the percentage of code which simply doesn’t matter as long as it works

“Everything not impossible is trivial.” - Mathematics. That said, yeah, it’s frustrating the percentage of code which simply doesn’t matter as long as it works at all. Although the point about mediocre engineers making things way harder than they need to be gets exponentially worse as the decisions get earlier in the process. So many times you look at implementing something and ask yourself why we’re even doing this at all.