Best practices and receieved wisdom can be useful but only when interpreted by someone with a degree of wisdom and judgement. As ever, the answer to whether you

Best practices and receieved wisdom can be useful but only when interpreted by someone with a degree of wisdom and judgement. As ever, the answer to whether you should do A or B is 'it depends'. Applying a best practice blindly is, ironically, a 'worst practice'. Best practices are incredibly useful, we need to learn from the accumulated wisdom of those who've gone before, but you need to know when to modify or ignore them too.