I don't disagree but "established best practices" have an enormous range from no brainers to obvious cargo cult bullshit. For every dev rightly suggesting people use CI/CD I've met 10 that twitch at the slightest suggestion that maybe we don't need whatever half baked library their favourite medium blogger or tweeter is raving about this week.

I think it's stupid to disregard a doctor's advice, but as someone without a medical degree you really have no good way of knowing whether you're getting the healthcare version of "use version control" or "I just used Svelte for 5 minutes and it's the best thing ever!!!!!!!". You just have to roll with it like you'd roll with a shit dev over someone who's never written a line of code in their life.