Comment by NomDePlum

I'm going to have to admit to never having read Clean Code. It's just never appealed to me. I did read some of UBs articles a fair number of years ago. They did make me think - which I'd say is a positive and along the lines you are putting forwards.

Rigidity and "religious" zeal in software development is just not helpful I'd agree.

I do however love consistency in a codebase, a point discussed in "Philosophy of Software Design", I always boil this down to, even if I'm doing something wrong, or suboptimal, if I do it consistently, once I realise, or it matters I only have one thing to change to get the benefit.

It's the not being able to change regardless, in the face of evidence, that separates consistency and rigidity (I hope)!