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Yup. Early in my career I was susceptible to this as well. Partly immaturity and partly business pressure (we need this thing now, and when the business adapts, we don't want to spend more engineering resources on it! make it work for the future!)

turns out that's nearly impossible, in most cases (businesses change)

I definitely take a more iterative approach now. There's a short spike window to architect the rough plan, get buy in from other engineers, and as long as we feel like we're directionally going the right way and we're not digging ourselves into a corner, we ship it.

Sometimes that has resulted in redoing things (we made a mistake in our thinking), but those redos are minimal compared to the weeks/months we may have spent over-architecting something