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by adam_arthur 844 days ago
Most people aren't good programmers. And most also don't make a concerted effort to improve.

Sorry to say, but that's the simplest truth. Many go years and years in this industry with little improvement to quality/succinctness/readability. If you cared, and tried, you would.

Programming skill is uniquely distinct from domain knowledge, by the way. e.g. all of the research code written by domain experts that is full on spaghetti.