> Even Apple and Microsoft violate their own rules with their flagship applications. Sometimes there's violating your own rules to push the State of the Art f

> Even Apple and Microsoft violate their own rules with their flagship applications. Sometimes there's violating your own rules to push the State of the Art forward and this will eventually become the new standard. Then there's violating your own rules because you don't value consistency. Most organizations with enough software are pretty guilty of that latter one, but destroying any semblance of consistency because it is economically convenient for the development team doesn't seem like a step forward to me.