I agree with the others commenters who say the code "improvements" lead to unwarranted complexity and unreadability. Academic version of enterprise fizz-buzz th

I agree with the others commenters who say the code "improvements" lead to unwarranted complexity and unreadability. Academic version of enterprise fizz-buzz this is. IMHO, the quality of the code is not so important but more the documentation and testing around the code, and the use of best practices like git, versioning, etc. A good place to learn about these things is Patrick Mineault's The Good Research Code Handbook which is available here https://goodresearch.dev/ https://goodresearch.dev/ (intended for scientists who must produce code artifacts as part of their research).