Stop Writing Clean Code. Write Honest Code Instead.

There is a codebase out there with a simple "send an email" operation that goes through seven layers of abstraction. An EmailService that uses an EmailProvider that wraps an EmailClient that calls an EmailAdapter that uses a MessageSender that invokes a TransportLayer that finally, after all of that, calls the actual email API. Every layer has a reason. Logging here. Error handling there. Retries somewhere in the middle. It is, by almost every definition the industry has agreed on, clean code. I