As one of those very harmful devs you're referring to, I think you have it backwards. From my perspective, anyone who lionizes linting and arbitrary practices a

As one of those very harmful devs you're referring to, I think you have it backwards. From my perspective, anyone who lionizes linting and arbitrary practices as "best" is actively harmful to whatever mission my team may have. Readability matters; maintainability matters; functionality matters more. The longer you talk about proper tab spacing, the less time you're talking about algorithm optimization. If you care so much about the look of the code, you should have gone into marketing.