I agree (in principle!) with the idea that consistency across the whole code base has value, but personally I find it extremely marginal, unless you're literall

I agree (in principle!) with the idea that consistency across the whole code base has value, but personally I find it extremely marginal, unless you're literally dealing with e.g. hundreds of people needing to read/modify the code. The value proposition skews heavily towards situations where you have a lot of people needing to read/modify the code.