Exactly. That's what this breaks down to a lot of the time. A huge portion of software design, and discussion of it, is a lot more psychological and a lot less

Exactly. That's what this breaks down to a lot of the time. A huge portion of software design, and discussion of it, is a lot more psychological and a lot less empirical or objective than it may appear. That's why you still see people at each other's throats pretty much every day on reddit and HN over pretty much every software design debate ever. (And software usage debates are even worse.) Their method is optimal and their opponent's is terribly overengineered or underengineered. People like to cling to their preferences, and prefer what they've moved away from when they were less experienced and skilled, or what people they respect use, or what happened to catch their fancy or fascination years ago, or just what makes them subjectively feel good. You see the exact same kind of thing in other disciplines, including artistic fields, and the exact same kind of discussion board vitriol and cargo culting. The nice thing is you at least get exposed to a lot of perspectives. If someone were to read only 1/4 of the posts in this thread, they may be convinced to take some kind of hardline position and find themselves down a narrow path. But if they read every post, they can take it all in and understand how much vehement disagreement and fuzziness there is, and be more skeptical and critical about the right or wrong way to do things.