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patient- Hey doc it hurts my arm when I hold it like this. doc- Well don't do that.

Yeah, that sums up the problem!

But Doctor, what if I NEED to use a nested contortion of generic classes as part of my obfuscated Java homework?

I've seen code very much like this in production c# and similar monkey patching stuff in ruby.

As humans we identify patterns far to readily and as developers we try to reduce duplication far too prematurely.