It's better than other jobs b because there is very little actual authority over what is considered correct. If software was more entrenched in academia then the story might have been very different.

As an aside, your return statement example made me chuckle. That's the exact kind of thing some people get their panties in a bunch over. But then you switch to another team and it's cool. lol I've experienced that kind of thing so many times. It's as if the field is designed so that you're constantly gaslit into thinking you're incompetent.