Very true, but I don't think that's the conclusion I was reaching. The very things that make some things easy, like dynamic scoping; advising things left and ri

Very true, but I don't think that's the conclusion I was reaching. The very things that make some things easy, like dynamic scoping; advising things left and right; wholesale overriding functions in your init file; aliasing or fsetting things. Each one of these things adds technical debt, but in this case, the technical debt has no real cost as it's not often a shared project and is mostly limited to snippets and bits of code that gets stuck in a file and rarely touched again.