Against Best Practices

Follow best practices unless you can give a reason not to. "Best practice" is a shorthand for a lot of accumulated knowledge that you don't want to go over again every time. Also following BP makes the code more consistent and thus easier to understand. But when an argument arises, go back to the underpinnings of the best practice and work from there.

Basically if you know exactly why the best practice/rule is in place, and know for sure it does not apply, just skip it. But not before.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence

That's very reasonable.

‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.’