A problem with a verbose approach is that when ver 2.0 comes you can't really know/remember which part of the code is actually used and which was just prepared for future development - so you end up maintaining and coding around pieces of code that will never be used.

Like I said, what eventually bites you is that you never ever ever know exactly what version 2.0 will require. So in the end you still have to adapt code, and adapting clean short code is easier.