Any rule in engineering "can be taken too far" in the sense that there are times when other considerations will win. SPOT (which actually seems equivalent to the intent of DRY, although I recognize that that use might not be well represented in the memepool) is something that is probably always a win on its own terms, but in some cases introduces other costs that exceed the actual benefit. I think that's meaningfully different than the overly syntactic (mis?)interpretation of DRY, where it's true that things looking similar might hint that there's something to factor out, but sometimes factoring that thing out is a bad idea simply because it is actually two separate "pieces of knowledge" that just happen to be the same at the moment.