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It is especially hurtful when people apply DRY immediately on some spaghetti code already mixing abstractions.

Then you find yourself untangling intertwined fatorized code on top of leaky abstractions, losing hours/days and pulling your hair out… (I’m bald already but I’m pretty sure I’m still losing hair in these situations)



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