"do you think that a single dev would just arbitrarily assign endianness throughout the code, then have the script code be big endian?" I have seen crazier thi

"do you think that a single dev would just arbitrarily assign endianness throughout the code, then have the script code be big endian?" I have seen crazier things. A single developer who works on the code a bit, takes a break, then works on it a bit more can easily have switched conventions.