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Deep inheritance hierarchies create unmaintainable codebases through cognitive overload and "everything touches everything" architectures. The author examines real-world examples including a five-layer inheritance hierarchy for a payment page and an 866-line generic repository, demonstrating how preemptive framework design leads to rigid abstractions that resist change. The solution is to extract patterns after solving problems multiple times, prefer composition over inheritance, and remain skeptical of deep hierarchies beyond two or three layers.

Why Your Software Sucks: Inheritance

Deep inheritance hierarchies create 'everything touches everything' architectures that resist change and accumulate technical debt. Here's why inheritance is the gateway drug to frameworkism.

<p>To avoid extreme inheritance in many cases it can be useful to apply the Decorator pattern.</p>


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