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Next thing you know software devs will fight thunderdome style over which console text editor is superior, bracket placement and tabs versus spaces.

Exactly, I can't imagine the pressure on development and design teams, where every possible change has a chance of being ridiculed by not just thousands, but hundreds of thousands of people at once.

It must be so incredibly difficult for teams to work under such severe pressure, and yes, could be debilitating for software development in the coming years.

Dangerous toward everything, really, not just software development

It’s an exact one to one example of bike shedding.