Yeah, I'd go further and say that preferences only should come into play early in a project when you're deciding on what the style of the project should be. For

Yeah, I'd go further and say that preferences only should come into play early in a project when you're deciding on what the style of the project should be. For most of the lifetime of a project, writing in a style that is uniform with the rest of the codebase should come before your personal style.