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The problem is that a lot of people don't understand when to ignore the rules and just stick with them forever.
We had a developer once that always said KISS KISS KISS whenever we pointed out that her functions are working but not reusable, so she wrote 20 functions that all did the same thing, but with slightly different parameters. And that's just one of the examples
@doktormerlin @sus
Even if their style is objectively bad, as long as it works, that's a bad hill to fight over.