There are other possible interpretations of this: 1. They disagreed with you about code quality. For example: Imagine your tool highlighted duplication across

There are other possible interpretations of this: 1. They disagreed with you about code quality. For example: Imagine your tool highlighted duplication across tests and pushed people into using things like rspec’s shared examples. People would disagree with (their interpretation of) you that duplication was worse than the wrong abstraction. 2. They were already overwhelmed trying to follow multiple rules from multiple people (PM, CTO, manager, team lead, various staff engineers) who all have conflicting ego-driven priorities. 3. They see rules not being followed by other people and consequently feel like they lack the skill to be the unique engineer who can simultaneously jump through all the hoops and execute fast enough to avoid losing their home by being judged as “the slow one”.