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by sleiben 980 days ago
Encountered this too often in my career and had a lot of wtf moments debugging that «de-coupled» stuff others (and sometimes me) have left.

I decided to follow the «Wrong abstraction is worse than duplication» approach. Doing this for 5+ years now and did never regret it.

Sure, copy-pasta sucks but in comparison to over engineering it’s an acceptable price to pay.