Gregory's Server@david_chisnall I think this relates to something I learned only after delving deep in C after a decade or so of object-oriented, heavily abstracted programming:
One should always strive to solve the problem at hand, not some generalized, abstract set of N problems. The latter always ends up becoming ritualistic hope-magic, that in the future things will be better if we do things now The Right Way. Aesthetics, law and protocol become metrics instead of whether it solves the problem.
@jarizleifr @david_chisnall intended to solve one problem elegantly, written to solve N to feel like a God, delivered it as a charter to our future self, but only really intended and tested for one problem.