[namuol]

So you think code that is ugly is bad code? Or is it that it uses janky/outdated features? What makes it good if not its lifetime value?

Surely you don’t just presume the quality of code based on the person who wrote the code, right?

[yxhuvud]

What makes it good is the tradeoff between how well it solves the problem compared to how easy it is to maintain. And people learn how to write better code as they get more experienced, but old projects are seldom rewritten using the learnings - it is often just easier to start over from scratch.