There are other factors here: - how much time will the code be reread? - does the carefully selected name does make sense for other readers, future self inclu

There are other factors here: - how much time will the code be reread? - does the carefully selected name does make sense for other readers, future self included? That is, does it help to make things easier to understand for them? - a good name can be reused extensively over your whole career, so a few hours might well be well invested time from this perspective if you plan to keep a foot in the technical side of the story all along. Actually, a good name is surely something you might have the opportunity to reuse outside a coding context.