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While I agree that can devolve into a dogmatic belief system, I also think that that's partly a people problem.

Many of the ideas in Clean Code make code more readable (for example small methods, each containing only one level of abstraction; or good naming). It's on the coders to know how far to take these ideas and when to be pragmatic and say "good enough".

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> It's on the coders to know how far to take these ideas and when to be pragmatic and say "good enough".

Which works in theory, in practice it's not that that easy, especially since UB seems to cater for the most "religious" ones

It isn't easy, but so far I've had luck with my co-workers. If they were more dogmatic, I think I would see Clean Code more critical too. But as it stands, I still recommend the book to new colleagues, and our culture takes care that we don't follow each "law" to its letter.

Yes isn't easy, that's why I'd rather avoid it

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