"It also means not over-engineering things. "Our code is hard to understand, therefore, we need more architecture" is a fallacy I've seen a few times. The code

"It also means not over-engineering things. "Our code is hard to understand, therefore, we need more architecture" is a fallacy I've seen a few times. The code wasn't hard to understand due to lack of modularity or architecture, but because it was just badly written unclear code." For sure, if I have 10 tightly separated micro modules, just for the sake of it, then this is not helping clarity. But if everything is an entangled mess of spaghetti code, then modularisation helps, so I do not have to look into 10 places to get what a certain function is doing.