Originally Posted by
Diana
I didn't say you need to reinvent the wheel every time, only that sometimes the more you work with something, and try to get it to cover all bases, the less it makes any coherent sense. At those times, it's better to toss out the mess you've made of it, and start fresh. Then you can examine all the pieces you originally accepted as a package deal, and sort out which are good to keep, and which are garbage. And if they're all garbage, then they all go.
Like building a machine, and it keeps getting more and more complex, so you tack on a fix here, and a fix there, and you're building a bigger monstrosity by the minute. It's better to strip the whole thing down, and find the essentials, make them work first. The machine becomes simpler, more elegant, and better functioning without all the extra junk.
But yes, I'd rather fit critical than dogmatic, although I've been dogmatic at times as well.