well-trodden

SE Asia is so incredibly cheap yet well-trodden, The US is sprawling and gorgeously diverse, Europe is a different adventure with every train you take, Africa is...

Both markets looked boring and well-trodden until Apple blew fresh air into them.

Then the addictive qualities can drive the user down a well-trodden road.

Seems to be a well-deserved example of doing something unoriginal, boring and well-trodden in a no-bullshit, user- friendly way and being rewarded for it.

The AST transformation stuff here is neat, but relatively well-trodden ground.

Would improved knowledge of the literature help identify unexplored paths, and keep students from revisiting old, well-trodden paths, or should some old things be left mostly unvisited?

For light scaling issues (compared to Google) Redis, MariaDB and other abstractions over local files have some great options for future scaling, and are well-trodden, obvious choices.

Dropbox was unoriginal, boring and well-trodden?

The US will just continue down the well-trodden path that the rest of the world has already blazed, where tiny pockets of wealthy elites try to shelter themselves from the increasingly lawless masses.

It's a well-trodden spot in the lovely Highgate cemetery, and much as I dislike much of what Marx wrote, I love that so maany people make a pilgrimage there and turn their backs on Spencer.

There is also the issue of omitting to make the best strategic choices from among those potentially suitable for a venture, and this means being able to stand back from one particular well-trodden path (Delaware C-corp with one class of common stock) to assess whether that path in particular is best for your venture.

I read a piece that I wish I'd saved that suggested that one of the reasons programmers often have better experiences with computers is we've internalized what is likely to be the well-trodden path and we stay on it.

I don't see why automation means one must follow the "well-trodden path." Software isn't limited to a linear script.

..not that there is any consesus on what exactly that "well-trodden path" is, since as you mentioned there's a myriad of tradeoffs.

As for the distinctions between "philosophy" and "religion", well...that's a well-trodden path I won't go down.

> with the slight bugs that come from not having a well-trodden path Localized bugs are easier to solve than the type errors common to that "well-trodden path" you talk about, which may span an entire application.