You know what's not given enough credit? The fact that those so-called "patterns" are really just trendy ideas pretending to be "knowledge". It's like fashion - it goes in and out of style. Now we have all these blog posts saying "DRY considered harmful", but back in the day, everyone was all about "DRY considered good". It's just a trendy thing, man. And all this backlash against it? Yup, you guessed it - it's just another trend (because it's not cool to follow the rules anymore).

To be real, most of those ideas probably have some truth to them, but like always, it's about weighing the pros and cons. It's all about those tradeoffs.