[Dylan16807]

> Outright banning certain techniques because you cannot understand how they could be valuable in very specific scenarios is honestly infuriating. Obviously, the use of niche/dangerous workarounds should not be liberally promoted. At the same time, automatically rejecting any commit is an insult to the intelligence of the person who wrote that code: perhaps they had a good reason to write it that way.

The problem with this discussion is that you pulled "because you cannot understand how they could be valuable" out of nowhere. They're talking about rejecting it despite the value. You should not be infuriated for that reason.

If there's an insult based on intelligence, it's saying they're too smart and need to write something dumber so that more people can maintain it.