Guy managed to bloat a simple mobile app to 180kloc. Every change we wanted to make after inheriting the codebase required changing abstractions in >10 places and all their corresponding unit and integration tests. I'm talking changes like adding an additional value to a dataset. Everything was abstracted as far as humanly possible.
He was a very proud clean code aficionado and would not let anyone from his old team dissuade him. He would also regularly scold his somewhat more junior co-worker when he did not follow his 7 layer abstractions for services, providers, surfaces, use cases and bindings.
But alas, I don't want to say you're wrong but there are people that would do well with this simple piece of advice.
Guy managed to bloat a simple mobile app to 180kloc. Every change we wanted to make after inheriting the codebase required changing abstractions in >10 places and all their corresponding unit and integration tests. I'm talking changes like adding an additional value to a dataset. Everything was abstracted as far as humanly possible.
He was a very proud clean code aficionado and would not let anyone from his old team dissuade him. He would also regularly scold his somewhat more junior co-worker when he did not follow his 7 layer abstractions for services, providers, surfaces, use cases and bindings.
But alas, I don't want to say you're wrong but there are people that would do well with this simple piece of advice.