I am not so sure that pitting to tendencies against each other is such a good idea. The thing is that the good programming is somewhere in the middle of all of these things because if any of these tendencies goes too far we run into problems. I think we should all be able to belong to each of these three tribes depending on the circumstances.
I definitely agree! Going too far in one direction or the other is likely to both result in poorer code and to antagonize whichever side isn't compatible with that approach.
I think what I was trying to get at is that one of the reasons that teams often don't find balance is because the differences are dismissed as being just differences of opinion. I was trying to show that they are often much more significant than that since they can make it difficult for one side or the other to understand and work with the codebase.
