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Well, the whole field of software development is geared towards solving that problem, isn't it?

You can have something highly customizable (e.g. write a web application in some common language), or you can try to create some out-of-the-box solution that works great for certain apps but quickly becomes a mess when you try to go beyond it.

The core problem is there's a lot of complexity that's not always obvious and it has to be dealt with somehow.




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