Can we please dispense with the whole "How did these moron's get anything accomplished before I came along?" pattern? The article, comments on the article's pa

Can we please dispense with the whole "How did these moron's get anything accomplished before I came along?" pattern? The article, comments on the article's page, and a lot of comments here are all variations on "This perfectly acceptable practice makes my eyes bleed, and is the calling card of shitty programmers everywhere. After I switch some semantics, rearrange the deck chairs, etc, its now perfect in every way, invulnerable to bugs or misuse." No pattern is universally applicable. There are lots of ways to accomplish a task. Coming up with a different solution does not invalidate what came before.