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the client doesn't understand either. This I have had to learn to accept and not blame the client for, it's OK and we'll figure it out together
we can't figure out what we actually need by overarchitecting something to death. If and when you find you've coded yourself into a corner because you didn't architect well enough 6 months ago, then congratulations it seems like what you're doing is good because you've made enough progress to actually need a better architecture
obviously I'm oversimplifying and people more experienced than me understand better how to walk the tightrope between unmaintainable spaghetti and an overengineered mess, but me, I try to keep shit as simple as possible because you never know