I don't think the audience is interested in this. If you'd like to be specific, I'm happy to talk about specific critiques. Otherwise it's just posturing, and there are better things to do over the holidays.

The original assertion was that under no circumstances should a bash script not begin with -e. I gave a circumstance (passing optional arguments), and said dogma is often counterproductive. I stand by all of those.

Let's agree to disagree and move on.

I kind of agree with your point that there should be exceptions, but I think I also agree with OP that using -e as a general rule is probably a safe starting point.