You are equating readability and maintain-ability with quick ramp up time. That is a very institution centric way of looking at software development. As a grea

You are equating readability and maintain-ability with quick ramp up time. That is a very institution centric way of looking at software development. As a great counter example look at Haskell. The ramp up time for a typical Haskell program is fairly high but once you invest the upfront cost and understand the programs major abstractions you can make changes quickly and in a much less error prone fashion.