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Sounds a little like Chesterton's fence. Or the law of unintended consequences in economics. The interesting thing is that overzealous government interventions are typically the example of blunt instruments that have lots of unforeseen problems in economics.
Comment by dweezil22 at 23/01/2025 at 11:53 UTC
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TIL Chesterton's Fence! Exactly! This concept applies equally well to software engineering.
I've torn down a few fences but only after I asked everyone that could possibly be involved with it why it was there, and did the equivalent of setting up a trail cam where it used to be to make sure nothing unexpected crossed later. One advantage of software is that you can usually put the fence back up in like 5 seconds if you were smart about removing it.