The is the most powerful tool in your arsenal—not because it kills monsters, but because it kills the frustration of lost progress. By understanding the difference between what is saved (towers) and what is not (mana), you can plan your runs with surgical precision.
“We tried to rewrite Defender 3 from scratch. Three months later, we were begging to inherit Defender 1’s spaghetti code. Here’s why that saved our launch.” Defender 3 Inherit Code
In Defender 3, some inheritance paths are called millions of times per second (packet inspection, log parsing). Other paths are cold (configuration loading, report generation). Use a profiler to identify the hot paths that absolutely require performance. For those, you may accept the inheritance constraints. For cold paths, aggressively refactor toward composition. The is the most powerful tool in your