I've seen tons of code, including code at companies famous for rigorous coding-interview processes to weed out weak programmers, that was far far worse than thi

I've seen tons of code, including code at companies famous for rigorous coding-interview processes to weed out weak programmers, that was far far worse than this. For all its bad properties, this code at least doesn't succumb to over-abstraction, obscure control flows or object-lifecycle rules, or desperate attempts to use every possible combination of language features in a (failed) attempt to look smart. Those things will kill readability and maintainability far more effectively than a bit of linearity or bad variable naming.