> In the moment of writing the code, the evidence for the shared abstraction seems overwhelming, but the evidence of the cost of coupling is completely absent
This is actually representative of a problem in the industry as a whole I think. A lot of things have short term benefits but long term drawbacks. Because of the drastic, recent growth, orgs are bottom heavy (very few people have experienced long term drawbacks of X compared to how many people who just learnt X). Additionally, because of the extremely quick turnover of people, it's even rare that people who implement X are there when X blows up in people's face. They went on to implement Y...and will be gone before Y blows up.
So most tools, libraries, frameworks and abstractions are HEAVILY optimized for the short term. Optimized for getting a project set up quick. Optimized for the initial "Hello world". Optimized to get an API and a form in seconds. Very few tools/patterns are optimized for ease of long term (hell...these days long term means a year or two) maintenance. The ones that are generally get a bad rep.
And building stuff that's both good short AND long term is very, very hard.
This is actually representative of a problem in the industry as a whole I think. A lot of things have short term benefits but long term drawbacks. Because of the drastic, recent growth, orgs are bottom heavy (very few people have experienced long term drawbacks of X compared to how many people who just learnt X). Additionally, because of the extremely quick turnover of people, it's even rare that people who implement X are there when X blows up in people's face. They went on to implement Y...and will be gone before Y blows up.
So most tools, libraries, frameworks and abstractions are HEAVILY optimized for the short term. Optimized for getting a project set up quick. Optimized for the initial "Hello world". Optimized to get an API and a form in seconds. Very few tools/patterns are optimized for ease of long term (hell...these days long term means a year or two) maintenance. The ones that are generally get a bad rep.
And building stuff that's both good short AND long term is very, very hard.