[williamcotton]

But why follow the wrong abstraction and why try to build something that you don't fundamentally understand?

I've built some rather complex systems:

Guish, a bi-directional CLI/GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish

WebDSL, fast C-based pipeline-driven DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq: https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl

Search Input Query, a search input query parser and React component: https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query

[jdlshore]

I'm not trying to throw shade when I say this: those codebases are very small. (I'm assuming what I found in the src/ directories is their code.) Working in large codebases is a different kind of experience than working in a small codebase. It's no longer possible to keep the whole system in mind, to keep the dozens+ people working on it in sync, or keep up to date with all the changes being made. In that environment, consistency is a useful mechanism to keep things under control, although it can be overused.