[seanwilson]

> over time decided the Django model was actually more effective as your cue to ask whether you should have been writing a Python function instead and calling it

I get the motivation, but is disallowing brackets and proper variables really the right way to do this? These make code clearer to read and reduce duplication more than they introduce complexity so this is going too far in my opinion and feels arbitrary.

[acdha]

Oh, believe me, I’ve been on both sides there. My observation was that over time the burden of maintenance and on-boarding new developers pushed me from wanting more flexibility to saying that the restriction was more valuable than I thought.