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by 7777fps 2241 days ago
In general, yes.

Everyone seems to have their preferred style of coding, and it is an easy defence mechanism, when presented with anyone who tries and finds it wanting, to say that "Well they didn't do it properly".

You find that with Microservices vs Monolith, Strong types vs Weak types, Exception Handling vs Results, Agile vs Waterfall.

People fragment into camps which turn into echo chambers and it's easy to dismiss anyone who doesn't commit to that cult as being unpure and not worthy of being in the cult anyway.