TL;DR: - use principles as guidelines not gospel - optimize for readability/maintainability - and for the love of all that's holy, don't build stuff you don'

TL;DR: - use principles as guidelines not gospel - optimize for readability/maintainability - and for the love of all that's holy, don't build stuff you don't need yet. BTW, any other old-timers remember when we just wrote code without worrying if it was SOLID enough? Those were the days...