I get that Casey’s video is popular (though I wouldn’t call a video with less than a couple million views in it’s first year mega-popular) but I also feel like

I get that Casey’s video is popular (though I wouldn’t call a video with less than a couple million views in it’s first year mega-popular) but I also feel like it’s a bit of a straw man. People don’t dislike Clean Code because the examples aren’t performant, they dislike it because it very stridently and wrongly argues for ways of writing code that are difficult to read, reason about and work with. And to save you a lot of time: Most of the pages Uncle Bob has written don’t matter. Clean Code was his only book that has significant sway over the software community at large, the other books didn’t have nearly as much influence and don’t really matter to the discussion. Like, it doesn’t matter if Uncle Bob makes a good point in the middle of a forest when no one is there to hear it. The thing that matters is that he wrote a bad book that made the software engineering community worse.