That's ok assuming that time ever comes; pressure to deliver new features or just the possibility that you move on and it stops being your code and becomes some

That's ok assuming that time ever comes; pressure to deliver new features or just the possibility that you move on and it stops being your code and becomes someone elses means you may never get a chance to look at those ugly things. I think there's a middle ground that takes that kind of uncertainty into account and is pragmatically wary of 'ugly' and 'improvised'