Typically what I’ve see most often is: considering coding as a satisfying hobby, combined with the tendency to generalize into a properly sorted ontology, which

Typically what I’ve see most often is: considering coding as a satisfying hobby, combined with the tendency to generalize into a properly sorted ontology, which leads to prioritizing the pleasingness of the code rather than the fitness of it to the current purpose. This is excellent, if the coding is in fact for a hobby, but it is often misapplied in other contexts. https://xkcd.com/974/ https://xkcd.com/974/ “Simplicity” can also be defined any number of ways, but is most often defined as “Maximally pleasing simplicity” rather than “Fewest moving parts simplicity”, in part due to misestimating how total volume of moving parts is an exponential complexity modifier when one is not already familiar with the mechanisms. https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/