I have seen way too often, advocates of SOLID and patterns to have religious arguments: I don’t like it. That being said, I think there is nothing bad in SOLID, as long as treated as principles and not religious dogmas. About patterns, I cannot really say as much positive. They are not bad per-se. But I’ve seen they have made lots of harm. In the gang of 4 book, in the preface, I think, says something like “this list is neither exhaustive, nor complete, and often inadequate” the problem is every single person I know who was exposed to the book, try to hammer every problem into one pattern (in the sense of [1]). Also insist in using the name everywhere like “facade_blabla” IMHO the pattern may be Façade, but putting that through the names of all classes and methods, is not good design.

[1] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

> That being said, I think there is nothing bad in SOLID, as long as treated as principles and not religious dogmas

This should be the header of the website. I think the core of all these arguments is people thinking they ARE laws that must be followed no matter what. And in that case, yeah that won't work.