They truly do entice you to find more elegant solutions. One thing they show in the post-mission report is your solution's code line count, energy use, and comp

They truly do entice you to find more elegant solutions. One thing they show in the post-mission report is your solution's code line count, energy use, and component cost versus others in a graph. I didn't consider myself "finished" on a puzzle until I had figured out how people got to that super-optimal solution which sometimes took multiples of the amount of time of the original solution but damn was it ever satisfying.