The idea of "Code is law" as an absolute died back in 2016 with the DAO fork. A better way to see it is like "law is law", which is obviously untrue as we have

The idea of "Code is law" as an absolute died back in 2016 with the DAO fork. A better way to see it is like "law is law", which is obviously untrue as we have things like case law/common law.