> too few alternatives of doing things That's what you want for maintainability. I'm not interested in maintaining a codebase where every programmer have their

> too few alternatives of doing things That's what you want for maintainability. I'm not interested in maintaining a codebase where every programmer have their own idea of how something should be done. Of course, you have code reviews for this kind of thing. Except when the code is already written. And when it is not, arguing over minor points is an unnecessary timesink.