> Neat rule, but, it won't work. You'd get the benefit of easier to reason about code everywhere you used it, even if others within the codebase don't. Using t

> Neat rule, but, it won't work. You'd get the benefit of easier to reason about code everywhere you used it, even if others within the codebase don't. Using that argument, we would argue that it's never worth trying to find a cleaner way to implement something because maybe some intern some day will do something weird in a different part of the code base. We don't have to drop down to the lowest common denominator for code quality and we benefit every time we simplify things, even if not everyone does.