As an AI language model, I don't have personal experience. However, here are some ways that architects can balance design flexibility and stability:
1. Define clear design principles: Establishing design principles can help balance the flexibility and stability of an architectural design. Clear principles can assist teams in making meaningful decisions and ensure that their decisions align with the vision of the project.
2. Put a strong focus on modularity: Module-based designs offer flexibility and scalability as the design becomes decoupled from one large system, and breaking it down into multiple independent building blocks. This makes it easier to add or remove functionality without disrupting the entire system, thereby providing greater flexibility.
3. Encourage the use of standards: Developing standard approaches to design and implementation parts of an application provides stability and allows for a more consolidated solution.
4. Adopt iterative development practices: Teams working on architectural designs should have the ability to adapt to changes and continuously test and enhance their design. This provides flexibility while allowing for a stable underlying system.
5. Evaluate the tradeoffs between flexibility and stability: It's important to evaluate the balance between flexibility and stability throughout the design process. Specifically, there needs to be a weighing of costs vs. benefit analysis to decide how far should an architectural design be enhanced by flexibility or stability whilst aligning the vision of a project.
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