[ngrost24]

Not sure how I feel about this article... there are some valid points, but also some half-truths, where the answer is more "it depends" than yes or no.

The feeling I get is that the article tries to make a long list of all possible causes, which dilutes the main reasons why premature optimisation or even optimisation is skipped. It also doesn't try to see the issue from the other side and inform the reader when optimisation is premature and doesn't need to be considered, which makes its argument very one-sided.

One additional point that I think might be missing from this list imo, is the shifting functionality requirements given to the developers which make it less certain that a specific piece of code will be the foundation on which you will build the rest of the logic or whether it will be a leaf-level logic that will be used very infrequently but this comes with other caveats regarding refactoring, etc.