I agree with the premise that production code won't be as elegant as you might like once the real world starts creeping in, but describing code as 'ugly' seems

I agree with the premise that production code won't be as elegant as you might like once the real world starts creeping in, but describing code as 'ugly' seems to lack information. Is the code badly formatted? Poor choice of variable names? Non-idiomatic language use? Monolithic code blocks? Spaghetti code? Depreciated methods? Dangerous hacks? Ugly could mean any of these & more. Some are less tolerable than others.