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Yep, there are days I yearn for just having a super long set of if statements, vs the over-engineered messes that I deal with on a daily basis.

So many codebases end up impenetrable in the pursuit of fancy design patterns...



I think that too fancy code is just as bad as the original if-else spaghetti, but then even worse, because the patterns are abstract now as well.




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