I never made the argument of "no true developer." I pointed to specific reasons cited when push-back is given, and then explained why I disagree with those poin

I never made the argument of "no true developer." I pointed to specific reasons cited when push-back is given, and then explained why I disagree with those points. > Clean code necessitates that dreadful question of “what if”, Nope. Not even a little. "Clean code" can be as simple as keeping your moving parts isolated and loosely coupled so that they are easier to debug, to reason about and to reuse in new contexts if needed. What you're talking about, the "what if" game ... is what Martin Fowler termed "Speculative Generality" in his book "Refactoring" when cataloguing code smells and sources of complexity. In other words, the exact opposite of what I'm talking about.