> I realized that some junior engineer had been using some design pattern they didn't really understand, and that added zero actual value to the routine.

£3.50p says it was the Generic Repository pattern implemented over Entity Framework dbContext, right?

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Speaking of design-patterns, I subscribe to the opinon that _Design-patterns are idioms to work-around missing features in your programmign language_, which explains why Java has no end of them, and why us jaded folk find happiness in modern languages that adopt more multi-paradigm and FP (the post-Java cool-kids' club: Kotlin, Rust, Swift, TypeScript, (can C# join?)) - so my hope is that eventually we'll have a cohort of fresh-faced CS grads entering industry who only know-of Facades/Decorator/Adapter as something a language designer does to spite their users because any reasonable compiler should handle interface-mapping for you - and the Visitor-pattern as a great way to get RSI.