As with everything, it depends on your requirements, including timeline, shelf-life of application, and future maintenance/feature building. Sometimes, code is

As with everything, it depends on your requirements, including timeline, shelf-life of application, and future maintenance/feature building. Sometimes, code is a one-off and it is better to write something that works rather than worrying about the perfect implementation. One should strive for clean code when one can, but all things have tradeoffs that have to be decided for/against.