DRY might be the bane of my existence as an engineer. The vast majority of developers I meet that are self proclaimed as "senior" are extremely dogmatic. They'v

DRY might be the bane of my existence as an engineer. The vast majority of developers I meet that are self proclaimed as "senior" are extremely dogmatic. They've had roles where it's been drilled into them {{engineeringPractice}} is god tier engineering and it should be applied indiscriminately to everything you write. Being a great engineer is about being able to be pragmatic, learn the rules, then learn where you can break the rules. DRY is like the entry level dogmatic practice everyone adopts, and it leads to some god awful abstractions and it's really hard to explain why having un-DRY code is ok, it's really unintuitive to the "initiated".