1950's onwards they used ribbon cables close to surfaces for household wiring. It was best practice, just not today's. As a freelancer jumping projects, I can'

1950's onwards they used ribbon cables close to surfaces for household wiring. It was best practice, just not today's. As a freelancer jumping projects, I can't help but see parallels, in that you've really got to study code bases wrt the time of authorship to understand their particular idiosyncrasies. In the 2010's, people believed in "REST" without considering the context in which these concepts were introduced (eg thin browser UIs, or generalizations thereof as a baseline). Customers, even highly capable devs, flaunt their REST best practices, yet see HATEOAS as optional and pretentious, failing to see the entire point of loose coupling and discovery, and engaging in zealotry about squeezing parameters into URLs instead. Or pretend to, to stop pointless discussions with mediocre, bureaucratic peers.