I don't really think good practices changed that significantly in the last 20 years. Good practices must be seen like guidelines, not a strict dogma. They are m

I don't really think good practices changed that significantly in the last 20 years. Good practices must be seen like guidelines, not a strict dogma. They are mostly for the benefit or other humans to read and modify it without introducing (many) bugs. So, it's always a balance between the time you can reasonably imagine that code base will still be relevant, the number of people changing it, how much harder certain bending of the guidelines make it to change the code in future, etc.