There is a spectrum of "it just works" to "I've applied every best practice" bad programmers who spend huge amounts of time on best practices will end up wastin

There is a spectrum of "it just works" to "I've applied every best practice" bad programmers who spend huge amounts of time on best practices will end up wasting a lot of time over optimizing but it may have the benefit of reducing risk where they may have a lack of deep understanding or it may shine light on that risk, that is if they apply practices correctly.