To me it’s less about “consistency” as some nebulous, subjective thing. If you want to set the new standard for $thing, whole-ass it and set the new standard for $thing. I fully support this, but within reason of course. The point at which I duck out of this is when numerous replacement operations require significant non-trivial changes to highly depended on and/or untested code. Otherwise if it’s a simple task that a good IDE and a couple hours of hard work can solve… just do it!
