This reminds me of the “HTML should be semantic” and “CSS class names should be semantic” crowd. People aren’t robots, and we can’t/don’t write crystalline code

This reminds me of the “HTML should be semantic” and “CSS class names should be semantic” crowd. People aren’t robots, and we can’t/don’t write crystalline code, nor arguably should we. The status codes are extraordinarily convenient, both to set and to read, and the ship has sailed already on whether to use them this way.