After suffering in the coding world for a bit now, the only clean code I need is the code I can easily change or use. Code formatting, style, naming, but even a

After suffering in the coding world for a bit now, the only clean code I need is the code I can easily change or use. Code formatting, style, naming, but even architecture and all forms of best practice cargo culting I do not care at all, if it does not make things easier. The company I worked for had a separate team, kind of a startup, and these guys were all in on discussions how to do things cleanly -- is it a code smell? -- but everything they did was overengineered and borderline useless. If the things you do to make code cleaner make it more difficult to change things, or even to use it, you are doing it wrong. And I've done things wrong plenty and mostly still do, but I want to improve and what developers usually emphasize does not make things easier.