Maybe my experience is different to the author’s but I’ve encountered lots of unmaintainable incoherent mess and extremely little over-designed works of art. A

Maybe my experience is different to the author’s but I’ve encountered lots of unmaintainable incoherent mess and extremely little over-designed works of art. As such the message is very unfcomfortable. It’s fundamentally saying, don’t prematurely optimise, prematurely design layers of abstraction, which is correct, but I’m not sure our industry needs to be encouraged to smash stuff together and to hell with the consequences really.