Testing, for one thing… I mean YES you can factor your code (tests, whatever) to make this a non-issue but supposing some person wrote some code 10 years ago i

Testing, for one thing… I mean YES you can factor your code (tests, whatever) to make this a non-issue but supposing some person wrote some code 10 years ago in an OSS project or on your team and you start banging into this issue. It’s not going to be trivial to unwind let alone find the root issue. Let’s start fixing things like this for our future selves, right? Digging heels in and saying “eh, you just got to learn this one weird quirk.. oh yeah this other one too..” is kind of a fun glass bead game until it’s not; as is not a winnning way to endear hearts and minds.