It prevents you from repeatedly patching your system rather than redesigning it, which is a big problem I see in a lot of programmers. Uh, this is the norm in

It prevents you from repeatedly patching your system rather than redesigning it, which is a big problem I see in a lot of programmers. Uh, this is the norm in the industry. There is rarely ever a chance to do a complete redesign. From the micro to the macro, there's always some hacky solution hanging around.