To all readers who've never experienced it, working on a large Java (and other) codebases where the original developers completely overused patterns, your life will be hell in my opinion, just as much as a codebase written totally without thought or patterns.

Patterns can be useful but only in moderation and only with reason. They're spice.

A contrived example, but:

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition. It's enterprisey!