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Cognitive load is what matters
There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.
Ohh, part of the functionality is in BaseController, let's have a look: 🧠+ Basic role mechanics got introduced in GuestController: 🧠++ Things got partially altered in UserController: 🧠+++ Finally we are here, AdminController, let's code stuff! Frontend developers would (hopefully) introduce some kind numeric status -> meaning dictionary on their side, so that subsequent generations of contributors wouldn't have to recreate this mapping in their brains. At best, abstractions can save somewhat 10% of your migration time (if any), the real pain is in data model incompatibilities, communication protocols, distributed systems challenges, and implicit interfaces.
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