Similarly, We've all seen incomprehensible ten-thousand line CSS styles sheets, with layers of inheritance, where you're forced to grep through to find that one line on some ancestral class that controls the left padding for every h1 on the site... except this specific one, which I guess is using !important on its own class? Damn it.

So, what'll it be? We're talking about inherent complexity. Should it be application specific? Or should the platform take a stance on the Right Way? If we have a rule that holds in 95% of cases, embedding that rule into the platform itself does make sense, as long as you can escape hatch out in those 5% of cases it doesn't hold. It reduces the complexity developers have to hold in their head. Its no longer "Oh, yeah, I need padding on that, how much? 4 pixels I guess. Is that standard? Wait, no, i think we moved to 8px recently. Or, wait did we move this to 'em'?". Its just "I need padding. I'm adding padding. On to the next thing."

Your company isn't special. The problems we're each solving are more alike each other than not. Embrace the magic. Learn it. It'll make your life easier, and your software better.