i agree. this solution is to clever for its own good. but those requirements were essentially asking for a clever solution. if the challenge can't be solved wit

i agree. this solution is to clever for its own good. but those requirements were essentially asking for a clever solution. if the challenge can't be solved without being clever then it is the wrong challenge. this interview tells me that the candidate is smart and knows typescript well, but it doesn't tell me if they can write code that is clear enough so that a junior can understand and modify it. because the latter is the reality of work. a year from now, a junior will be asked to adapt this code to say replace 3 with 7 or something like that, and they will probably not be able to it without having to rewrite all of it from scratch.