My life has become much easier since I figured this out. There definitely are best practices, but the phrase is a lot of times used by people as a tool to justi

My life has become much easier since I figured this out. There definitely are best practices, but the phrase is a lot of times used by people as a tool to justify what they do. It's also used a lot by people who don't actually want to do good work for their customers, only to impress their peers. "I have now refactored my code into proper modules to follow best practices. My design is now preventing from implementing a feature my users actually need." The same goes for other stress inducing phrases like "code smell" etc.