You are deluded or trolling calling it monkey patching. Dynamically overriding a public method definition is monkey patching. Extending a public class and overr

You are deluded or trolling calling it monkey patching. Dynamically overriding a public method definition is monkey patching. Extending a public class and overriding some public or protected method is not monkey patching, you are crazy if you think it is. You think you thought of the proper public API that your software modules should have? Especially your internal software? Of course you didn’t think of it all ahead of time. It’s a software architecture concept called “open for extension”, look it up. JetBrains doesn’t ship anything with deadlines or that must always stay on. Users can always downgrade the IDE. The number of times I’ve been to turn off the latest feature and try again (to see if the IDE still crashes) is ridiculous. Number of times my build stayed stable after a major IntelliJ Idea upgrade? 50% success rate. I’m rolling the dice on every upgrade. Please let’s talk about shipping software with consequences.