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> If, however, someone insists on certain approaches while never going deeper in their explanations than arbitrary non-falsifiable qualifiers such as "best practice", "modern", "clean"

You're moving the goalposts of this discussion. The guy I was responding to said "fix your setup" to another person saying "Your table wrapped for me. The short line equivalent looks best on my screen." That's a stated preference based on a benefit he'd like to achieve.

We are not discussing "best practice" type arguments here.



"Best practice" type arguments are the universal excuse for remaining inconsiderate of the fact that different people interact with code differently, but fair enough I guess




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