Now gentlemen,
Each of you take your favorite tool in your right hand. Take the left hand of the person you are disagreeing with and apply your tool to his little finger on his left hand at about the first joint.
The first one to flinch or squeal loses the argument.
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Me, I like interlaced or twisted wires, solder it, fold it over and apply two layers of heat shrink tubing well shrunk with a hair dryer. Winds up just being a little bump in the wire.
Then I take rubberized cloth tape (old school wiring harness covering tape) and extend the wiring harness proper to hide my joints forever.
I also like to lightly crimp on a terminal with a crimper, then I hit the fray end past the crimp with the soldering gun to block off all moisture/air by wicking solder back through the crimp and up the wire a bit.
Overkill, that's my philosophy ....