And it isn't because it's superficial and fashionable. It's because there are underlying logical reasons for doing what the rest of the herd is doing.
Likewise with sticking to coding conventions for a language.
The performance of every given actor in the system is inhanced by everybody else adopting the system. Its absolutly normual and good. Thats how our social liver works in general, the state mostly only comes in later and writes stuff down.
And it isn't because it's superficial and fashionable. It's because there are underlying logical reasons for doing what the rest of the herd is doing.
Likewise with sticking to coding conventions for a language.