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there are two ways in which I can understand your message:

a) "these techniques allow for an easy to refactor codebase". I profusely disagree, its easier to refactor a function with some ugly switch than a behavior disseminated over dozens of files.

b) "we are actually careful and not draconian about these techniques only when appropriate", which I don't agree either, as in every experience I had interacting with people that believe in clean code in meatspace, was an obsession with having things done their way, assertions about "code smells" which were literally just not doing whatever they wanted.

maybe there's a c) I'm not seeing. But seeing this thread on its own its already high evidence that these two notions are clearly there in the CC community.

"we are actually performant" becomes "well, actually we are readable" becomes "well, actually we are testable" becomes "well, actually humm... just shut it and write on our code style". Some posts on this thread even talk about people not using these guidelines being evil and having to be ejected. Just imagine how people not suck up on this ideology look at it.