There’s nothing wrong with this pattern. It would be like calling JSON or YAML an anti-pattern. Sometimes you want data in that format that a parser then parses

There’s nothing wrong with this pattern. It would be like calling JSON or YAML an anti-pattern. Sometimes you want data in that format that a parser then parses. Normally if it’s a dynamic sidebar that comes from the server. I appreciate the author striving for simplicity though! It certainly can be over or under applied like most things in software engineering.