I feel that if you already used this naturally, that is before you had to because you've made a 5-level deep, 20+ class wide hierarchy of doom, then all is well, because you're already keeping things nicely separated. The part I'm not fond of is the underlying motivation for inclusion in the patterns book, namely: "now that you've written hundreds of classes using inheritance, let's make it a bit easier" An inversion of code design, if you will.
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I feel that if you already used this naturally, that is before you had to because you've made a 5-level deep, 20+ class wide hierarchy of doom, then all is well, because you're already keeping things nicely separated. The part I'm not fond of is the underlying motivation for inclusion in the patterns book, namely: "now that you've written hundreds of classes using inheritance, let's make it a bit easier" An inversion of code design, if you will.