At this point we're suggesting that we shouldn't implement some guidelines because there exist developers who will naively take it to extremes and stubbornly refuse to budge. Those developers will be an issue practically independent of the guidelines themselves.
You mean like the stubborn devs who argue we shouldn’t have guidelines because one in a thousand times it doesn’t apply?
At this point we're suggesting that we shouldn't implement some guidelines because there exist developers who will naively take it to extremes and stubbornly refuse to budge. Those developers will be an issue practically independent of the guidelines themselves.