[photonthug]

Awesome description of really fundamental issues. It takes a lot experience to come to these kind of conclusions and people who haven't dug deeply into large enough code bases will never really believe it until they see it, and even then it can take a few rounds. So the config layer complexity keeps coming back while naive but well intentioned folks are striving in earnest for simplicity. It's tricky to argue the point also because either POV can sound like best practice, and decisive action in one direction also doesn't have effects that are immediately visible. It's a pretty long game to see what works best and we never feel the pain that we manage to dodge.