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> In every case they said they were in a hurry and that they would “fix it later”.

This. We need to stop using time pressure as an excuse to do a bad job. Moving things out to a separate function might add 10 min but save 100x when everything comes crashing down.

Of course you shouldn’t overengineer but so much can be gained from spending a little time just thinking about how this should work.