> But I'll do so only when it's the simplest and most maintainable solution to the problem, and not because I want to be the greatest of programmers in my or ot

> But I'll do so only when it's the simplest and most maintainable solution to the problem, and not because I want to be the greatest of programmers in my or other people's eyes. The problem I run into is the simplest and easiest modification, the yagni for any one ticket, if sufficiently small seems to be a great algorithm to find local maximas in the design. But if you keep with good design principles from ticket to ticket the end result is better.