[pydry]

It certainly feels that way. 2 or 3 days of up front architecture and design with hindsight is always better than 2 or 3 days of up front design in reality, but of course you dont have that hindsight when you start.

I've had to do up front on multiple projects and it always results in overengineering - we focused on things that didnt matter, designed things that were inappropriate, etc.

I'd always rather take those 3 days and redistribute them as extra refactoring time.