Depends on which parts you look at. There is plenty that he wrote about that have made coding enjoyable, but yes, also plenty that is the opposite.

I never saw his book as a bible though. I always thought of it as a “here are possibly good ideas, see which you and your team likes”.

I have the same. I believe it’s aphantasia, but I am self-diagnosed so I could be wrong.

Yeah, this is such a weird thing to exclude. They’ve even included buttermilk, but not butter. What the heck.