Interesting discussions today about beauty, utility and artfulness in and of code. Most all of it is true.

As in paintings, music or any other artform, as in engineering and science, we have off the shelf stuff, for masses. Cheap, mediocre and often sufficient. We also have the special stuff, skilled, artesanal, individual, special.

We have the art in maintenance and we do also have maintenance in art.

You only leave the realm of truthfulness if you claim that your specific viewpoint is the only valid one.

Any hot take is exactly that if it fails to acknowledge the spectrum it is addressing.