Ask them to re read chap.1 or 2 where it says black-on-white that this is not a set of mandatory rules. (Same for Clean Code by the way which is often taken as

Ask them to re read chap.1 or 2 where it says black-on-white that this is not a set of mandatory rules. (Same for Clean Code by the way which is often taken as gospel against the wishes of its own author!)