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I think here “to the user” is referring to the end user, not the programmer (the user of the coding style). There is a comprehension benefit for the team working on the code, but there is no direct¹ benefit to the end user.

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[1] The indirect benefits of there possibly being a faster release cadence and/or fewer bugs, could also be for many other reasons.

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But you could say the same about tests, documentation, CI, issue trackers or really any piece of technology used. So it's not a very interesting statement if so.

> tests, documentation, CI, issue trackers

Exactly. In many engineering camps, it's not unreasonable to say that almost all of this has no benefit to the end-user, even indirectly.

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