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Not Designing Yourself Into a Corner (Score:1)
Databases make this trickier (but not impossible). The better designed (this means "refactor continuallly") and the more maintainable (again with the refactoring), the easier it tends to be to change.
That doesn't often come from putting in code for future needs. I've found it comes more often from NOT putting in code for future needs.