Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern

Once has to deal with a couple dozen data imports that would run regularly.

I advocated for just having a script for each, even if they were 80% alike to handle the variations... Another developer created a massive set of database tables and coded abstractions for flexible configuration driven imports.

My solution was done in a couple days... The other dev spent months in their solution that didn't work for half the imports and nobody could follow their solution. When they left the company the next year, the imports that were under the complex solution were switched to scripts and the beast was abandoned entirely.