Maybe a better term than "superstition" might be "validated experience". We do what has worked in the past. It is true that there are standards that should be

Maybe a better term than "superstition" might be "validated experience". We do what has worked in the past. It is true that there are standards that should be read and followed; the ones referred to in the article are probably among these. But other standards have a fair amount of wishful thinking in them. (How many of you JS developers have read the latest ECMAScript standard?) Sometimes, what has worked in the past is a better guide for practice than what ought to work.