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Most of their reasoning doesn't apply to my problem space.

It probably does! It is just that in your problem space the price of failure is low enough that you can get away with it. But most experienced programmers tend to stick to a very rigid subset of simple and reliable constructs and stay as far away from any architecture astronaut inspired features as they can.

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