Scenario:
- A question about something that should be changed/fixed on Stack Overflow is asked on Meta
- I post an answer with a suggestion that will handle 99% of the cases the question is relevant to.
- Meta users post comments on my answer, suggesting it is problematic because it doesn't consider or cover the particular special case they've thought of.
I.
KNOW.
That's the whole purpose of the answer, to fix the problem for the 99%. We can handle the special cases specially!
This fixation by some members on finding a "perfect" solution for every conceivable possibility is harming the community, because it results in good possible solutions for the 99% being ignored and/or downvoted, and hence discarded, simply because said solutions don't work for their 1% case. With the end result that no solution gets implemented, because none of them are perfect.
If you work in software development, you should already know that perfect is the enemy of good enough. Please use logic, and approach Meta questions the same way. Think about what would help the community first and foremost, not what will solve your particular problem.