[ParetoOptimal]

>> People abstract before an abstraction is necessary.

> This one really frustrates me. Write code to the complexity level needed to solve the problem, and nothing more. The only time I'd break from this is if I know for certain that the added complexity is going to be necessary in the near term.

No, the ecosystem the code exists in and my ability to reason about the codebase is worth way more than any gain that comes from blindly stacking "simplest solution for problem a, b, .. z" atop one another without regard for higher level understanding of a codebase.

[xedrac]

I was not implying a lack of understanding of the ecosystem/codebase or to blindly stack "simplest solutions" on top of each other. I was stating that one should not add more complexity than is necessary for the problem at hand. Often people solve a simple problem with a complex solution due to some hypothetical future problem they've conceived in their mind. Most of the time these hypothetical problems never materialize, and they are now stuck with code that is much more complex than it needed to be.