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I hate hearing the word ‘framework’ from any engineer. You can replace that word with ‘overengineer’ and you'll be right about 90% of the time. You don't have to make frameworks for everything! Stop making everything 'robust' and 'future proof' while the project is still being iterated.

Like building a framework so that players can fire off 5 abilities at the same time, and the game designers are still iterating what the gameplay will even look like! How much time are you wasting? Or making an entire animation system for feet on staircases: Will the game even have many staircases?

This implies that companies generally have management that understands the importance of throwing away prototypes to make 'the real thing'. "But we can see the pixels on screen doing the thing we want; why throw it away? Just iterate on that and ship it!"

The exception is if you're using an engine or API that has an existing framework, such as GAS in Unreal. Please use that framework, and do not try to reinvent it! Make it do the work for you, and stick to it from the start, as it will be intertwined in all the other already existing systems.