There's a balance. Scope creep and solving engineering problems you don't have are obviously really bad, but too many people see the bell curve meme for tech s

There's a balance. Scope creep and solving engineering problems you don't have are obviously really bad, but too many people see the bell curve meme for tech stacks and lean into stupid. When building something, you want to take a step back and consider some of the most likely places that thing will evolve to, then architect the software to make those transitions/evolutions easy. That way even if you build the wrong thing, you don't have to start from scratch, instead you've created a ratchet of progress that makes each pivot faster and easier.