Completely agree. There is no reason (outside of some kind of coding challenge) for code bases in the web domain to contain logic that is so obtuse due to hacks

Completely agree. There is no reason (outside of some kind of coding challenge) for code bases in the web domain to contain logic that is so obtuse due to hacks or unavoidable complexity that spending more time to document functions than it took to write them is the correct use of business resource.