> junior developers ... objective is to learn as much as possible in the shortest period of time, so they can grow and get higher paying jobs. This is a perfect

> junior developers ... objective is to learn as much as possible in the shortest period of time, so they can grow and get higher paying jobs. This is a perfectly legitimate, indeed desirable objective, for any individual. However, this also, often translates to a lack of interest in maintaining code. I've seen this over and over again. It can be frustrating for a junior developer to create a large class hierarchy using arcane language features to solve a problem that can be done with a function and a for loop. The problem isn't so much that the code itself is more complex than it needs to be, it's that when they leave, someone else will have to pick it up.