I'm a huge hater of these and I think they almost always decrease readability of the code and slow down the development and review process. I want to read and

I'm a huge hater of these and I think they almost always decrease readability of the code and slow down the development and review process. I want to read and write the language I'm developing with, not the helper methods of some overeager developer who wanted to leave his mark on the codebase.