..except, if you want to add logging/metrics/other logic, it's quite possible you'll want it to be conditional on the boolean anyway, bringing branching back, n

..except, if you want to add logging/metrics/other logic, it's quite possible you'll want it to be conditional on the boolean anyway, bringing branching back, now mixed with the non-branching code. And even if you don't need to keep an if statement in mind, you still need to keep the variable in mind anyway.