Exactly, I’m all for readable code but this style guide stuff is cargo culting. The guides are the culmination of wisdom of past decades where IT became domina

Exactly, I’m all for readable code but this style guide stuff is cargo culting. The guides are the culmination of wisdom of past decades where IT became dominated by a few language stacks. Innovation happened elsewhere as computers got faster, bigger and use cases grew but did not transform. This changed and use cases and targeted platforms are different now calling for new stacks with new conventions. A typical developer is exposed to myriad languages and tools. Documenting small details in proper format never was enough but these days it has become ever more important to focus on communicating context and motivation.