My take is that the book also works as a source of authority for aspiring SSR and SR devs.
Comments about code style are usually subjective, and, they can be easily dismissed as a personal preference, or, in the case of a Jr dev, as a lack of skill.
Until they bring up "The Uncle Bob book". Now, suddenly, a subjective opinion from a Jr dev looks like an educated advice sourced from solid knowledge. And other people now have a reason to listen up.
All of this is totally fabricated, of course. But it's like the concept of money. It's valid only because other people accept it as valid.
I usually tend to take people who add prefixes like senior to their function title, less seriously. I've seen young devs who write better code than so called senior devs.
Comments about code style are usually subjective, and, they can be easily dismissed as a personal preference, or, in the case of a Jr dev, as a lack of skill.
Until they bring up "The Uncle Bob book". Now, suddenly, a subjective opinion from a Jr dev looks like an educated advice sourced from solid knowledge. And other people now have a reason to listen up.
All of this is totally fabricated, of course. But it's like the concept of money. It's valid only because other people accept it as valid.