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This seems kind of obvious though. Larger projects are more in need of the abstractions. You ARE gonna need it.

Generous to think that you would consider a project over engineered, but still rely on its internal abstractions.

The acronym YAGNI itself is flexible enough to handle this edge case accurately.

The GO4 were truly visionary.

GO4?

Gang of Four. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns

Gang of 4 - 4 authors from the book

“Gang of Four”, the name commonly applied to the authors of the seminal book “Design Patterns”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns

Not sure but I suspect it would be the "gang of four", i.e., the authors of the canonical OO design pattern book.

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