disable rubocop's single quote grievance

.rubocop.yml

@@ -201,8 +201,18 @@ SignalException:
 SpecialGlobalVars:
   Enabled: false
 
+# Forcing single quotes doesn't give any reasonable advantages. To the contrary:
+# it forces you to change the quotes every time you want to add interpolation,
+# newlines or other escape sequences (\n), or quotes (') to a string. Rubbish.
+# Don't even think about performance. That never was a valid argument to begin with.
+#
+#   For the record: using single quotes does NOT have any performance advantages.
+#   Even if it did, this would be a silly argument.
+#
+# Ideally we would just use double quotes everywhere but since that would result
+# in innumerable rubocop offenses we will just disable this. Quote away.
 StringLiterals:
-  EnforcedStyle: single_quotes
+  Enabled: false
 
 VariableInterpolation:
   Enabled: false