I'm saying that I'll accept your argument about consistency.

You didn't make an argument about speed, you just linked to a blog post. An argument about speed looks like *"I made this change and it improved performance by 5% in this test"*.

You made a claim that my code was an antipattern (= ugly), with no justification. That was presumptuous and kind of offensive, which reminds me of what I was like when I was younger and thought I was smarter than everyone.