When I hear "best practices" I reach for my Giant Spiked Club of Holy Wrath.
Why? What's so terrible about finding out about how those more experienced than yourself do things? I'm assuming, of course, that sound reasoning is supporting the practice rather than simple cargo culting.
It's cargo culting more often than not.
For some reason, people don't follow good advices which require changing code logic, refactoring and such: they follow advices where you need to format everything in the longest possible way and write a lot of boilerplate.
Because it's just easier for some people.