In fact, even at the danger of being annoying, I would rephrase that once again. "USE abstractions when you can see a valid present use". Not listening to your

In fact, even at the danger of being annoying, I would rephrase that once again. "USE abstractions when you can see a valid present use". Not listening to your code asking for a common abstraction of several things which already exist just for the sake of not using an abstraction ("well, because!") will result in an even bigger mess than most abstractions cause.