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I think worse is better here. This just sounds like another layer of abstraction and complexity i want to avoid dealing with as it will consume head space and detract from actually solving the problem i am there to solve.

I have a similar opinion, although I don't usually stick to defaults.

Apparently this is targeted to teams of developers, so there might be more of a need to "modularize" things.

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Having dealt with teams of developers and existing within them, I doubt this would impact them in any positive way. It would in some animal-farm-esque way empower an individual rather than everyone. People have so many differing opinions on such things, standardisation is hard.

The idea with modularizing things is it makes it easy to share the parts that people do want the same. Where I work we have slowly but surely come to an agreement on most of our git aliases. That's why we built [fresh] a similar tool to allow us to share the parts we want to. [fresh] allows us to easily override anything we don't like and keep the parts we do like up to date. My [freshrc] file is an example of mixing other peoples aliases and bin files with a collection of my own config.

[fresh]: https://github.com/freshshell/fresh

[freshrc]: https://github.com/twe4ked/dotfiles/blob/master/freshrc

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