I know people that I respect professionally that could have been good friends if one of us hadn’t insisted on purity of code in some situation or another. My c

I know people that I respect professionally that could have been good friends if one of us hadn’t insisted on purity of code in some situation or another. My closest friend at work and I take basically polar opposite philosophies when it comes to coding style. We thoroughly enjoy the debates that result. You don't need to be anti-"Clean Code", you just need to not let your concept of it become so important to you that it gets in the way of human relationships.