Exactly! Just add early returns when appropriate and all becomes much clearer. Also beware of people with strong opinions about way too general things in areas

Exactly! Just add early returns when appropriate and all becomes much clearer. Also beware of people with strong opinions about way too general things in areas where specific things are.. specific, and where discussions of the sort you started are nearly almost a bad sign. Without something concrete to solve/look at these discussions are more religious in nature. You can say whatever, no way to prove or, worse, disprove. When people get into heated discussions there is a good chance that there is no practical test possible because the discussion is not about anything concrete but about "ideas" - where everybody has different ones for the same keyword(s).