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by Timon3 36 days ago
It undoubtedly is! I'd much rather learn 10,000 different names that follow a clear naming scheme and stay consistent between different projects and teams, than 1,000 different names that aren't guaranteed to have clear names or any consistency (even inside a single team).

But I'd also like to push back on the "10,000 different names" - the overwhelming majority of those names are merely variations of the value they assign, so using any class teaches you dozens to hundreds of those 10,000 names. So realistically, the comparison is closer to "1,000 project-specific and potentially inconsistent names" vs. "1,000 consistent names valid in any project using TW".