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”You aren’t gonna need it” (YAGNI)[1] is good to keep in mind.

When you are building the abstractions too early you are guessing the future needs. If you never need to change X then the code to make that change possible is just extra weight.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it



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