Rules of thumb can be very useful for a relatively inexperienced programmer, and once you understand why they exist you can choose to ignore them when they would get in the way. Clean Code is totally unhinged though

I’d think game journalism has been mostly replaced by youtube reviewers / video essays, no?

steam’s drm is a complete joke though? Tons of game developers add their own drm on top because it is so trivial to bypass steam’s own.

Their main product is a marketplace/content delivery system