[epicgiga]

I haven't had that problem, but I do see a tendency for devs who enter the mid-level hump start to get big for their boots and want to clamp down on those below/around them doing things the "wrong way" (the way that isn't the way they like).

Normally you need a senior dev with a sense of pragmatism above them all to smack down any attempts to straitjacket the coding below/around them.

I use PHP a lot, simply because there's so much of it out there (lots of work), and one of the firsts thing I often do when taking on a project from another vendor is rip out any "no space at the end of the line" linting garbage and the like. As always in life, it's not about swinging for one side (vomitcode) or the other (anal styleguides), but achieving balance.