Not to mention that "Clean Code" is from the era where many developers were still sticking MySQL calls into the middle of their HTML. It was trying to wrangle a

Not to mention that "Clean Code" is from the era where many developers were still sticking MySQL calls into the middle of their HTML. It was trying to wrangle an audience that didn't put any real thought into code, trying to convince them that they should. That is an audience that doesn't meaningfully exist now. While there are still disagreements on exactly what the code should look like, most everyone now agrees that it is something worth thinking about, in large part because of efforts like "Clean Code" putting bugs in ears. It isn't what you would write today, but it wasn't written today. Without fail, if a developer is "pissed off", it is because they are judging something from the past by ignoring the conditions of the past.