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by jingw222 2151 days ago
I don't see your point. Code that's more modular, pluggable is by definition easier to delete. That should not be a reason to prevent us writing easy to delete code.
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It took me a while to get it too: someone else downthread summarised it neatly as a version of the Peter principle:

> all code tends to be refactored to its level of unrefactorability.

This was a neat way to look at it!