Comment by hiddenvulkcan

I mean that's always been the paradox that good devs need to live in, and I often go backwards and forwards on the scale between technically pure, and straight up problem solving.

Fundamentally software we create exists to solve problems, if bad code solves the problem is it bad code? Counter to that is we are engineers and it's our job to design systems that mean problems can be solved safely and effectively.

Like most things in life the truth lies in the middle