"We've always done it this way" is a terrible justification for the status quo. Absolutely. To me, it's more like "if you use words in a way that diverges from

"We've always done it this way" is a terrible justification for the status quo. Absolutely. To me, it's more like "if you use words in a way that diverges from what people can reasonably expect, nobody can understand what the fuck you're saying"