Regarding general design principles

[thecnoNSMB]

Currently, the style guide is too vague regarding our actual project direction and design goals. Some issues have had progress on them stall out apparently due to a lack of guiding principles to reference (for instance #744, #659, and #570), and some have come to consensus regarding individual design principles but have nonetheless not been implemented into the style guide (#558 and #510). I believe a set of general design principles needs to be made so that we can more efficiently and consistently achieve our goal of building an educational resource on the description and implementation of algorithms, and so that we can reference those principles to help resolve new design problems as they come up.

[thecnoNSMB]

(I'd label this as "Discussion", "General", and "Problem", but I seem to lack the premissions.)