Comment on How to make good small gamesparentComments−pengaru3yReplying to myself as it's too late to edit.A more succinct explanation came to mind while just doing some yard work:We've all heard and understood the wisdom of "premature optimization is the root of all evil", right?What's being conflated here as perfectionism is a variant of premature optimization.Perhaps we need an idiom like "Premature polishing is the root of all unfinished games".
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Replying to myself as it's too late to edit.
A more succinct explanation came to mind while just doing some yard work:
We've all heard and understood the wisdom of "premature optimization is the root of all evil", right?
What's being conflated here as perfectionism is a variant of premature optimization.
Perhaps we need an idiom like "Premature polishing is the root of all unfinished games".