Feature flags can make code accidentally a state machine. The same ideas to reduce conditionals ought to be possible with feature flags.
One is to have the outer code be the framework that takes a single path, and the inner code does the specific stuff. A FeatureFlagEnabled instance does one thing; a FeatureFlagDiabled does another.
Unfortunately, it's easier to sprinkle if-then around instead of rearchitecting. Not to mention having to handle combinations of feature flags since, for one reason or another, deprecation takes its own rework.
Feature flags can make code accidentally a state machine. The same ideas to reduce conditionals ought to be possible with feature flags.
One is to have the outer code be the framework that takes a single path, and the inner code does the specific stuff. A FeatureFlagEnabled instance does one thing; a FeatureFlagDiabled does another.
Unfortunately, it's easier to sprinkle if-then around instead of rearchitecting. Not to mention having to handle combinations of feature flags since, for one reason or another, deprecation takes its own rework.