[healsjnr1]

These patterns and practicee generally aren't intend for _you_ as the developer of the app right now.

They are intended for the poor shmuck 18 months later who has to work with a tangled mess of copy text stored in JS, server side yaml files and a CMS.

I've been that person at least 3-4 time now. I've waded through changes where having static strings got the UI would have simplified things immensely, and _none_ of these have had anything to do with internationalisation.

They have been far more prosiac (Legal request, product changes, rebranding, just general things like "where did this text under interest rate calculator come") but have still taken significantly longer than they should have.

When you are writing these apps it can feel like it's not that hard to go back later and pull out strings, just some grunt work.

But once you munge your code through three refactors and a framework change it becomes so much harder.