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I tend to advocate for people to study design patterns. Not for the purpose that you will necessarily ever use most (or even any) of these exact patterns in your software, but just that you've strengthened your mental muscle for software design in general. I encounter lots of engineers who simply aren't able to think "outside the box" when building something new.
I always wondered if people actually find it beneficial to follow these "design patterns" or not.
Personally, I prefer to learn FP patterns, which tend to be backed with nice mathematical properties behind them.