Ah that’s fair. I have nothing but contempt for those sort of comments too. They feel like a sort of petty tyranny of small scale thinking. Good, clean software usually needs to go through a chaotic messy period to find its identity - and find what the core abstractions really are. Like, first get the big details wrong, then iterate until you get the big details right enough. Then focus on the medium details, then the small details. Then release. Doing that process out of order is at best a waste of time, and at worst a massive distraction. Our attention is our most precious commodity as programmers. Wasting it inappropriately is criminal.

If you want to move deck chairs around on the titanic, at least have the common decency not to drag the rest of us into your orbit of BS.