Don't agree that sealed by default doesn't provide value though. The value is enforcing as much as possible that the code is used as it was intended to, minimizing the surprise factor when doing something it wasn't originally designed to do.
But of course, this has the problem of not allowing simple tweaks, as you mentioned, which could have no unintended side effects, but fix a given problem.
As usual, trade-offs 🙂.
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That's a valid point.
Don't agree that sealed by default doesn't provide value though. The value is enforcing as much as possible that the code is used as it was intended to, minimizing the surprise factor when doing something it wasn't originally designed to do.
But of course, this has the problem of not allowing simple tweaks, as you mentioned, which could have no unintended side effects, but fix a given problem.
As usual, trade-offs 🙂.