> Also, why are you so sure your "best practices" will remain best practices a couple years from now?
It's the same as saying "but why are you so sure your science will remain science a couple years from now?". Sure, there is constant progress and change, but we have to know what is at our disposal right here, right now.
"Best practices" are neither a hard science nor immutable. They are derived from observations about what works and what doesn't and are, therefore, subject to change over time as technology evolves. It's important to remember science, as in "what we understand about the world" also changes. What doesn't is the scientific method.
> "Best practices" are neither a hard science nor immutable
Yes. So what? Does it mean we don't have to study and apply them just because they are going to become obsolete eventually?
And I did read that text. In fact, I had read it earlier.
