So called "best practices" are contextual and not broadly applicable. Blindly following them makes you an idiot I've come to associate the expression "best pra

So called "best practices" are contextual and not broadly applicable. Blindly following them makes you an idiot I've come to associate the expression "best practices" with "a set of unwritten/badly documented rules which accumulated over the years and which we apply manually and thus inconsistently, even though we could automate this at least in part". Sometimes I wonder what would happen if my "best practice evangelists" from various projects I've been in met.