Clumsy engineering
Beware design that make easy tasks easier and hard tasks harder, for they will make some tasks impossible and increase the overall costs greatly. And because there is a natural tendency to do the easy first, the consequences will only be obvious long after there is a deep commitment and switching away will cost dearly.
This trap is one instance of the faustian bargain that is often found in many domains of engineering: ORM, clean code, design patterns, no code, low code, frameworks, cloud computing, OOP, LLMs, automation, and many others.
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