In my experience, most of the evils of enums can be traced back to the lack of exhaustive pattern matching in C++/Java. When programming in Rust or Haskell, enu

In my experience, most of the evils of enums can be traced back to the lack of exhaustive pattern matching in C++/Java. When programming in Rust or Haskell, enums are used much more often, and the exhaustiveness enforcement by the compiler means that these kinds of use cases tend to be encapsulated inside helper functions, which end up being equivalent to the members of the "tuples" presented by the author. Any additions or changes to the enum will automatically make the compiler force you to update these functions.