@miss_rodent @MaddieM4 I feel like this is a bit more complicated than you’re making it sound; on a *large* project, this is absolutely true, but a lot of software work involves tons of smaller projects, each with its own codebase, that is rarely revisited. each unit of abstraction (package, service, host, node, app) creates a level of non-negotiable boilerplate overhead, often in the form of configuration or data, not even code