&gt;There are several high-level advices that are similarly generic: break up your program to subsystems of clearly defined interface and purpose, make the subsystems composable by not loading them with too many purposes, don&#x27;t mix high-level and low-level purposes or operations in the same interface, avoid putting dependencies on other modules or services unless necessary, and know which operation belongs to which module. Those make good programmer, not minutiae about creating identifiers.<p>Lot of this will happen during accretion. You can rationalize adding one low level method to a high level class because at the time because you only have one request to do.<p>On the other hand, had you a request that warranted a whole bunch of low level stuff in your high level program, it&#x27;s very easy to see the opportunity of separating those concerns.<p>If you have good instincts for your problem space, chances are you&#x27;ll foresee a lot of these needs. You might even have the concerns separated long before the requests for them come in. Instincts take time to develop. So most people end up writing sub-optimal code because it&#x27;s the cost of training someone. Code reviews stop it from actually getting committed, but the team is still incurring a cost with the small chance it doesn&#x27;t pay off from the person not adapting the reviewer&#x27;s style.<p>How often do you sit and count the number of purposes a class has? The number of dependencies you&#x27;re adding per unit time? The amount of small things that sneak in because it&#x27;s just one small change and we really want to go drinking tonight? Do you go through this ritual every time you open the source? After all, you don&#x27;t just have to worry about your code, but also your co-workers&#x27;. Are they putting in the same effort as you are?<p>Even if you do that, what are your thresholds? Can you defend for choosing a particular value? Maybe it&#x27;s just inherited from someone who has a bigger name than you, which is a good guideline, but is not necessarily law.<p>To me, it will always come down to finding like-minded people in this area, which means there are people that just don&#x27;t care about the quality as long as it works. It&#x27;s a people problem. Since the compiler&#x2F;interpreter is happy to run terrible looking code, maybe it should have hard coded thresholds as compiler warnings decided by dice rolls!