I think if someone takes any of these typical guidelines - clean, SOLID, REST etc - and mindlessly applies it they’re likely to end up with a few parts of their

I think if someone takes any of these typical guidelines - clean, SOLID, REST etc - and mindlessly applies it they’re likely to end up with a few parts of their applications which look weird, or perform poorly or end up being worse somehow. This is because there are inevitably going to be situations where the guidelines don’t fit well - they’re not necessarily hard and fast rules after all. Any time you have these common rules of thumb in any part of your life you need to evaluate whether or not they are appropriate. But just because they’re not infallibly universal, doesn’t mean they’re wrong, it just means life throws complex situations at us sometimes, and that we need to be pragmatic and flexible