> Readers: what is your take on it and why?

All the bad stuff that people on both sides of this argument predict is going to happen somewhere in some code base, precisely because people on both sides can't agree and think the world would be better if everyone agreed on those people's personal aesthetic ideals.

So... don't sweat it. Conform to whatever code base you're working on has decided, and if it's inconsistent work to make it so.

And above all, no matter what else: Don't start dumb fights over this nonsense. Yeesh.