> It is absurd yes, but this is exactly how every single team I ever worked with, have functioned. And it's been promoted by managers who don't want to make too

> It is absurd yes, but this is exactly how every single team I ever worked with, have functioned. And it's been promoted by managers who don't want to make too much effort in actually understanding the work, and by asperger syndrome developers who do anything to avoid having to use their judgement, and possibly being "blamed" for making a wrong decision. I can understand your point of view given your experience and completely agree. However, in my case, believe me, it was not a question of careful investigation nor anything like that. My team was a mix of lack of experience, lack of knowledge (and the annoying habit of not reading the bloody documentation of the tooling), duct taping mentality, years of technical debt, folklore mentality etc. And I was the newer member and in charge. So, in order to fix that, I had to use sometimes "best practices" as the tablets of stone, otherwise literally every PR would have been a push and back. In other occasions, we simply reached an internal consensus. The author of the article uses the word "hate" which I think is too extreme. I truly believe that everything depends on the situation and general "best practices" guidelines might be a useful resource. There are no golden hammers in anything, even less in computer science.