Yeah. I think people conflate clean code (readability) with code refactoring. For the sake of readability I don't think having clean code matters much... but r

Yeah. I think people conflate clean code (readability) with code refactoring. For the sake of readability I don't think having clean code matters much... but refactoring I think can be important depending on the complexity you're dealing with. But even then, I'd only worry about refactoring when it comes time to worry about it. Usually I find that's when the scope of the software grows by some factor, or when you foresee it growing by some factor and you find it cumbersome to add simple features, yet a simple refactoring would make the addition of features much easier. So IMO, the importance of "clean code" depends on the complexity you're dealing with. Always having clean code just for it's own sake seems unnecessary...