Comment by zomgwat

On the spectrum you've described, I'm progressively shifting from Uncle Bob's end to Carmack's the further I get into my career. I think of it as code density. I've found that high density code is often easier to grok because there's less ceremony to keep in my head (e.g. many long method names that may or may not be named well, jumping around a bunch of files). Of course, there's a point at which code becomes so dense that it again becomes difficult to grok.