Hi Michael,
I’m coming back to your comment after a while.
To clarify, Clean Code in our products, as far as this announcement, is about how issues are classified and it shouldn’t disturb your Quality Gates.
Regarding the topic of customizable severity, which I assume you are referring to, it has been discussed in another thread. Maybe this is your main concern?
As for your Quality Gates configuration, I’m sorry that you feel SonarQube is somehow arrogant in terms of enforcing one view of code quality. I think if you open a dedicated thread you’d get help for your particular use case.