[justintoon]

It’s rare that I find a comment which validates my own practices like this. I personally love creating systems and abstractions, and admittedly I will sometimes create one when a simpler solution would suffice. However those “over-engineered” solutions have frequently saved me lots of time much later when business requirements change.

[mattmanser]

Your stance sounds different to the grandparent's.

There's a world of difference between adding a framework and over-engineering something that could have used a simpler solution.

My experience has been the exact opposite of yours, whenever I added something complicated, it either never got used and unnecessarily complicated the code, or when the time came to use the fandangled cleverness I lovingly wrought, it never quite met the need I actually ended up having.

So I stopped doing that years ago and now always write the simplest code. Never regretted it. I will add frameworks early though.