This might not be a perfect example, but there's a paper by Michael Stonebraker "One size fits all": an idea whose time has come and gone It might not specific

This might not be a perfect example, but there's a paper by Michael Stonebraker "One size fits all": an idea whose time has come and gone It might not specifically be DRY, but still related generic vs specialized code/systems. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1410100 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1410100