Patterns and their names are useful to communicate to other developers wtf you want to do. For example, "we can do a bit of flyweight with an FSM on this bit he

Patterns and their names are useful to communicate to other developers wtf you want to do. For example, "we can do a bit of flyweight with an FSM on this bit here to get this feature working". This is literally the only time I've used patterns in my entire career: to communicate ideas on how to solve problems. I don't think I've ever even once implemented a pure "by the book" pattern though.