I think the point is that this is the stuff that you always learn in the course of building your First Big Thing. By opening it up to public ridicule rather th

I think the point is that this is the stuff that you always learn in the course of building your First Big Thing. By opening it up to public ridicule rather than to a polite code review by an understanding senior dev, they don't really get any extra learning out of the deal. Just extra humiliation.