There's such a vast range of ways you can be expressive in programming languages (and interacting between them) that there are many viable ways to get something built.
Some people have strong opinions coming from confirmation bias because they did something that worked, so they cling to it and tell everybody to do the same thing. These sorts of opinions are a little useful, but usually only so far as you are trying to do the exact same thing in the first place. If you're attempting to do something different, the positive experience of somebody else isn't worth too much.
On the flip side, some people have strong opinions coming from dealing with spaghetti code, technical debt, from putting out fires, and working in broken codebases. For these people sometimes they learn valuable lessons of what not to do, but more often they get hurt and try to isolate themselves from anything that looks similar to the thing that caused them pain. With these sorts of negative opinions it's much harder to discern their usefulness. Some things people have negative opinions about are things would be true in every situation and should be avoided, while other opinions are memories of past pain that don't have any relevance to what you're doing at all.
It can be hard to navigate opinions sometimes, but the great part is you're capable of making your own too :)