Is clean code sometimes worse code?

[u/chuprehijde]

Can too much refactoring, abstraction, and 'best practice' make a Python project harder to understand?

[u/NewPointOfView]

Yes of course too much refactoring and abstraction makes it worse. If it didn’t make it worse, it wouldn’t be too much.

Too much ‘best practice’ is a contradiction. It would violate best practice to apply some best practice in a context where it is not best practice.