On the other hand, the clean code can be fixed and updated later on, where the fancy mess sometimes just gets worse. I remember once I found a series of if sta

On the other hand, the clean code can be fixed and updated later on, where the fancy mess sometimes just gets worse. I remember once I found a series of if statements that were so convoluted I needed boolean logic to make sense out of it. In the end, it turned out that half of it was duplication. Nobody could make sense out of it so they simply added on to it each time they had to edit the file. I'm not convinced that buggy clean code would be worse in that situation: the buggy code would have gotten fixed long ago because it would have been easy to see what was wrong and then fix it.