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@volume_denim76118 hours agoGermany
When should I abandon my initial case framework and rebuild it?
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Sometimes new information makes my original structure feel wrong, but I am not sure whether changing it looks messy. At what point should I explicitly rebuild the framework instead of just adding a new branch?
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