[msangi]

That's indeed a very good advice.

All abstractions have a cost and no abstraction is better than the wrong abstraction.

I found this talk on the topic very interesting https://youtu.be/4anAwXYqLG8

[Ace17]

In the same vein:

prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction ( https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstracti... )