[tpoacher]

Very good list. 100% agree.

The added realisation to me is that, the order of priority among those 4 points is reversed for the recipient.

I lost count of the number of times I wrote a nuanced, structured answer on stackoverflow, only to get a tldr effect and have a wildly wrong oneliner chosen as the accepted answer.

It has really driven the point across for me that "better" isn't always better; if a good solution will put off people from even reading it, then sometimes giving people a trivial, supercrap solution to use as a starting point and build from there is the way to go.