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His arguments triggered a sense of deja vu. I've made those same arguments with clients who want a system to process a specific product differently to all the others, and colleagues who think our framework should have special code to handle a rare use case.

Those arguments are valid - from the perspective of the architects. Maintaining and learning to use such a system is incredibly difficult, and resistance against special cases is healthy and helps promote simplicity.

But the purpose of law is to promote quality of life not quality of law, and life is messy.