[asplake]

That was my approach too for a long time. Thankfully I had at my disposal something untypically (for its era) capable of modelling interestingly rich structures (capable of modelling syntaxes in fact), but still it’s a bit of an antipattern if taken to the extreme.

If you’re not careful, you end up with things like CRUD apps, leaving a lot of work to the user. To break away from this, you need to start thinking in use cases, user journeys, and so on. Not that data isn’t vitally important, but it’s not everything either.