> I think as professional engineers it behooves us well to prefer actual argument and exposition of engineering tradeoffs over authority ("whole industry does i

> I think as professional engineers it behooves us well to prefer actual argument and exposition of engineering tradeoffs over authority ("whole industry does it", "learn from good books"). That really depends on what you want to achieve. e.g. if you want to retain the possibility to fire a whole team and replace it with newcomers, or external contractors, at any point in the development cycle, it is muuuuch safer to stick to what is taught in most schools (which is "tradtional OOP").