Comment by wruza

I wonder if anyone ever took it scientifically and A/B tested it on a codebase. A community is fine all these years before a change, but afterwards all that instantly becomes a bad practice and loses legibility. I’m confident that it mostly gets done not for any objective result, but because most developers are anxious perfectionists in need of a good therapist. And that’s plague-level contagious. Some people get born into this and grow up being sick.