The real question is "why do people who give advice always do so in such black and white terms?" My guess is that many people want to hear their personal hop

The real question is "why do people who give advice always do so in such black and white terms?" My guess is that many people want to hear their personal hopes and biases confirmed. Hate to go to meetings? Sweet; I just read that meetings are toxic! These guys are brilliant! Never mind the lack of context or backing evidence for various aphoristic claims. The folks who read what they want into such things don't care. When you hear what seems to be simplistic black-and-white advice, try flipping it around to the opposite, and see how hard it would be to rationalize a belief in that point of view. TDD is good - TDD is bad, OOP is epic - OOP is toxic; Stay small. Grow large. It gets to a point where such proclamations are little more than grammatically correct sentences, and all meaning is provided by the reader.