I completely agree. I could care less if the underlying code is messy as long as it is actively developed, and works. The project maintainers on the other hand

I completely agree. I could care less if the underlying code is messy as long as it is actively developed, and works. The project maintainers on the other hand have an incentive to make the code easy to work on. Especially if they want outside contributers. Not to mention the fact that they themselves (the project maintainers) have to work on it.