The backlash isn't against proper DRY (concerned with single source of truth) but fake DRY (concerned with syntactically-similiar code). Immense disdain does a

The backlash isn't against proper DRY (concerned with single source of truth) but fake DRY (concerned with syntactically-similiar code). Immense disdain does accurately describe how I feel towards whatever it is happens in corporate codebases. No, creating layers upon layers of indirection via classes is not ok, no matter what your SOLID guru tells you. Best practices, DRY, and SOLID are just excuses.