[floverfelt]

Yup, I 100% agree. The point of the post wasn't to bemoan practices, more just that it's frustrating to be told repeatedly that a certain thing is a "best practice" when really it's just what the developer who wrote it preferred.

Software Engineers should just say "this is how we like to do things" and not pretend that there's a holy grail of correctness when really it's just what they like.