[mannykannot]

> Everyone would agree with these in theory...

Not me - when I read "Take a moment to step back and look at your code. It should look beautiful to you", my bullshit detector goes off full-tilt. The last person I want reviewing code is someone who wants to apply this principle (I don't so much care if they think this while writing code, if and only if it has no tangible downsides in what they produce.)

This is compounded with the following sentences "Beauty often embodies many useful properties. Code that pleases the eye is often readable, idiomatic, and expressive", as if pursuit of this undefined beauty causes these outcomes.

I am not sympathetic to arguments that this is true "in a sense", as this just adds subjectivity and circumlocution to an issue that should be, like good code itself, as straightforward and to-the-point as is possible while getting the job done.