There is indeed this important aspect, but with this mindset we would never have implemented compilers, databases with their own query language, etc... I never

There is indeed this important aspect, but with this mindset we would never have implemented compilers, databases with their own query language, etc... I never lost a bet I made in """overengineering""" a solution to a problem and was always proven right in a matter of months. This is especially easy when the proposed solution brings structural improvements to the time it takes to implement a certain class of features. It's just a matter of comparing the time it takes to implement that "sophisticated" solution vs the speedup to implement such a feature using said solution times how many potential features there are in this class times the probability the company will need it at some point. And yes, in my case this implied writing "mini-compilers" or "mini-debuggers".