It is better to address the reader than write about the abstract person. For a USAer I am formal and retiring yet I rarely use one when you will serve. I finding using one is not pompous, just unengaging. Here we are in a poor situation for the use of you, we might wish to address each other personally and address the readership at large. Confusion between the general and specific second person probably indicates some structural deficiencies in a post. Given the informality of the forum this is to be expected.

The use of the reader is more suited to some styles fiction when one wishes to background the reader.

I recommend against descending to dialect, y'all, as a supposed improvement. Dialect is usually more distracting than helpful. I am sympathetic to your intent. The parallels to my statements regarding $obj->new are striking.

Your apology is accepted. Your post was very mild considering the provocation.

I look forward to more of your thoughts on the matter.

You mentioned programming guidelines earlier.

The use of programming guidelines is an interesting tangent to the issue. It is a formal declaration of what issues are not to be thought about when creating code. Coding practices should be determined at the lowest possible organizational level for the smallest reasonable workgroup. This yields expediency while still allowing some chance of improving the quality of code through better ordinary feedback and cross pollination between groups.