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It is never really mentioned why adding an index upfront is such a burden?

I don't really understand how the downside of adding an index almost ever outweighs the potential downsides of not adding an index. I'm sure there are some cases, and that was what I was expecting to see in this article, but it just seems to boil down to being so lazy that he wants to avoid typing a few more characters.




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