[tluyben2]

Right, there seems to be a group thinking like this and a group aggressing against it and vice versa. I recently had a discussion about it and the 'architecting' bunch (we need 20 layer deep directories with 1000s of file with < 10 lines / file) keep shouting about maintainability. The problem is, that after 25 years of professional coding in many different circumstances, I see that most good programmers are much quicker to understand the 'non architected' (putting between '' because good code is not gibberish, it is architected but not by randomly generating design patterns and applying them) and the not so good programmers say that the 'architected' code is much more maintainable but take weeks or months longer to do anything worthwhile as they are 'grokking the architectural choices'.