Your "support" was a bare opinion about what kind of flow of control is easiest to read. To me that is just a restatement of your opinion and not support.

By contrast in two responses, two different flows of control were presented where early exits make for more readable code. (Guard conditions and the loop-and-a-half problem.) Furthermore my personal experience disagrees with you, as does the reasoning of a fairly well thought out article that I referred you to. Which also presented pointers to research indicating that it is easier for students to produce correct code for some common problems if they have the possibility of correct code. Granted, students are generally less competent than professional programmers. However if you're concerned about varying skill on your team, why would you choose to make it harder for the poorer programmers to correctly solve problems?

Out of curiosity, what would it take for you to reconsider your style guides?