I&#x27;d codify this further with the view that subsituting one set of technical debt with another that fits with local trends and personal opinions is bad. The reasons to program in a particular fashion are as weak as &quot;look how elegant that code is&quot; appealing to the asthetic of the text and layout rather than any actual metric of clarity, reusability, interpribility or whatever.<p>Goto considered evil is folk law when it comes down to it, I think it&#x27;s almost universally believed but the fact that I don&#x27;t immediately think of a crystal clear quantitative result to underpin the view that jumps in code are bad is telling.<p>I think that some of what is going on here is economics though, coding in the new way gives a good line of patter for the next gig, and we all need to think about the next gig.