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But that is proper. The quality of craft/creative work matters. It belongs in the evaluation of craftsmen and creative workers. And it is fundamentally a feeling. When you are junior you may not yet have developed this judgement or taste. Your job is to learn it, from your own failures and the feedback of your senior colleagues. When you are senior, you have it. You are more valuable to an organization precisely because you can be trusted to have positive feelings about good work and negative feelings about bad work, and therefore do the right thing in a position of decision-making power. Also because you enculturate the next generation of senior craftsmen through your feedback.

This shouldn't be surprise at performance review time, nor should it necessarily come from your manager -- it should be coming from your senior colleagues on each of your code reviews, giving you a chance to improve your bad code before it gets checked in. But when your senior colleagues think your PRs are worse on average than those of your peers, then yes absolutely you should get a worse rating.