Hmm. Antipatterns do matter though - red tape abounds and is rarely conducive to good apps. Don't, e.g., bother to write comments for all your functions, modula

Hmm. Antipatterns do matter though - red tape abounds and is rarely conducive to good apps. Don't, e.g., bother to write comments for all your functions, modularize everything, or insist that every line of code must be tested. Not that those things can't be good in small amounts, 95% of modern web dev is busy nonsense like this, and it shows. Tech decisions are another source of waffling, to be sure. There has been more than one rewrite of a product to a worse product, to a product being again rewritten, or practically rewritten, because the rewrite was bad. Yeah some of it is management sticking its nose where it doesn't belong, but yeah, I think the point is also that devs argue about mostly what doesn't matter, instead of focusing on what does matter.