So you mean that the where-the-brackets guidelines found in core FOSS mega-projects, big corps like Google, down to many github personal projects having their o

So you mean that the where-the-brackets guidelines found in core FOSS mega-projects, big corps like Google, down to many github personal projects having their own "please follow the guides" in the readme, all of them are misguided, useless, wrong and even, let'y say it, plain stupid? I, on my side, claim that guidelines are there for a reason, and should be followed.