The author exposes a problem of ideological practice in software engineering. We're trained to organize code for extensibility and high availability, among othe

The author exposes a problem of ideological practice in software engineering. We're trained to organize code for extensibility and high availability, among other goals. We should probably learn to evaluate situations in which those goals are not helpful and adapt to the situation. After all, a surgeon probably doesn't follow surgical best practices when removing a splinter from his child's finger. SE's should probably recognize when a simple, non-abstracted approach works sufficiently for a situation and leave it at that.