There may yet be latent benefit in methodological or automated support, but I'm convinced it'll be icing on the cake, not the cake itself or even a layer thereof. The misconceptions I've looked at so far have to do with what patterns are . Now for a few misconceptions about what patterns can do . This one's easy, because patterns don't guarantee anything. They don't even make benefit likely .
Patterns do nothing to remove the human from the creative process.
They merely bring hope of empowerment to a possibly inexperienced, perhaps merely uninitiated, but otherwise capable and creative person. That can only occur if the pattern strikes a chord in the reader's mind. Patterns are just another weapon in the developer's arsenal. To ascribe much more to them is counterproductive. This misconception is like unto the last one, except that it's less aggressive in its overstatement.