> I'm not dictating anything, or being dogmatic
You literally dictated that explanatory code docs shouldn’t talk about rationale for constants. And your evidence for this is that apparently Clean Code says so.
> condescending
Well you can claim not to be condescending all you want but that’s how I interpreted your explanation that the only reason I disagree is that you “understand it better,” and I’d imagine that’s how most people would read it.