Comment by mbrodersen

I must admit I laughed out loud reading this. The real world is complex. The problems software solve in the real world are complex. Economics, sales, politics, personalities, random world events, competition etc. has always and will always be a force pushing software development in non-ideal directions. In my experience, software that is twice as malleable takes four times as long to write, making you dog food for the competition. A better choice (again from experience) is to think like an Engineer: find the least cost good enough solution to the problem. Then implement it.