I get your point. Obviously you shouldn't gratuitously be a dick to people, and I was being a little bit flippant with my phrasing. On the other hand, being abl

I get your point. Obviously you shouldn't gratuitously be a dick to people, and I was being a little bit flippant with my phrasing. On the other hand, being able to understand the code is an extremely low bar, and if you're writing code that other people can't understand then at best it shows a lack of basic respect for your coworkers, and at worst it's a form of employee theft from your employer. If you sent in an article to a magazine as a freelancer and the editors didn't understand what you were trying to say, then you probably wouldn't even get a response. And if you did it repeatedly they'd probably block your email address. Obviously no one is going to immediately intuitively understand a 1,000 character regex. But I'm sure we've all seen people who have treated basic CRUD apps like obfuscated C competitions.