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

I would reverse this: if you can explain to me exactly why your so called "best practice" applies here and now, good. Otherwise it's a nice input to have in the discussion, but nothing more.