In the office job, I'd push on why the defaults didn't work out. In particular, I would be worried that I was specifically aiming to make future life a bit har

In the office job, I'd push on why the defaults didn't work out. In particular, I would be worried that I was specifically aiming to make future life a bit harder by not fitting with the defaults of dataclass. To that end, I'm curious what defaults you didn't use?