As a Kid:
“Mom!  Can I ride my bike blindfolded off the school loading dock?”

“No!  Why on earth would ask that?”

“All the other kids are doing it.”

As an Adult
“Hey Boss...yeah I’m just back from the Best Practices Birds of a Feather session for the Thingamajig software.  Pretty much everyone else is first building the configuration file locally, then putting it into workflow before it hits the staging server.  We were the only ones building the config file right on the server.”

“Well, it seems to work faster that way but if it’s not a best practice then you’d better have Jones setup that workflow....”