I like reading about ESE (empircal/evidence-based software engineering) for precisely these reasons. For example, someone found that SOLID programming didn't of

I like reading about ESE (empircal/evidence-based software engineering) for precisely these reasons. For example, someone found that SOLID programming didn't offer much of a benefit to code readability. This is my favorite talk on it: https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/what-we-know-we-dont-know/ https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/what-we-know-we-dont-know/