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Meta-programming is usually unnecessary complexity that obscures what code is meant to do.
Their wordsBut there are a lot more cases in which meta-programming is unnecessary and additional baggage on top of the solution, which gets in the way of understanding what the code is supposed to do.
Their wordsA lot of complex, "look at this clever trick", overly-abstracted, unreadable code works and makes the tests pass.
Their wordsNot every elegant solution is straightforward, but "stupid" ones are, per definition, and can also be elegant.