Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences? 5 years ago
rather, "best practices" is cargo culting by mediocre programmer, trying to copy techniques that a really skilled programmer once employed to do amazing things.
and then when this does not work, they call themselves artists.
i actually heard this quite a lot in all these years in the field - "coding is an art". it is for some, for most is just copy/paste from SO :)