People can make their own decisions about this, yes. But an important point I love seeing in a top comment is that almost always it's hard to inherit someone el

People can make their own decisions about this, yes. But an important point I love seeing in a top comment is that almost always it's hard to inherit someone else's code. It almost always looks bad at first. I'm more of a manager than a coder but I've worked a lot of small places and I can tell you, every coder who has worked for me has tried hard to keep code clean, and every coder who's replaced those coders has thought the code was a mess. The only time this didn't happen was when there was really a team of coders working together. Any single coder is almost always going to produce code that looks messy to anyone else. You can say you're not going to work on code like that, but in my experience you're also choosing, in that case, never to work for a small place.