Is Monostate the good cousin of the evil Singleton?

Question

Singleton is definitely one of the most misused and abused patterns out there. Many of us have been infected with Singletonitis at one point or another. Curiously, its close c

Answer 1

how about not using patterns just because?

update: abuse of singleton occurs because people add the pattern w/o justification. It often adds arbitrary constraint to no benefit. using monostate w/o justification is perhaps less harmful, but no more justified. if the universe won't collapse if there's more than one instance, than don't enforce it with a pattern - just create only one instance.