The structure does have an impact on its maintainability though. You said you don't care about well-formed the mortar is or how the drywall is hung, but would y

The structure does have an impact on its maintainability though. You said you don't care about well-formed the mortar is or how the drywall is hung, but would you care if it was made in a way that would make it much harder later on to run new wires inside the wall? I would care personnaly. > writing code is having it solve real business problems Sure, but writing good code is about solving future problem the business is going to have too. A problem has more than a single dimension. If your code will never evolve, if it's a definitive solution to their problems, the structure doesn't matter that's true, but sadly, that's almost never the case.