I'm not saying that my team writes unmaintainable code, but rather that because they're all strong and experienced, writing decent code is a given and the focus

I'm not saying that my team writes unmaintainable code, but rather that because they're all strong and experienced, writing decent code is a given and the focus is on other, more challenging, problems. That being said, our code is definitely not as readable as it could be, but I understand it's a trade-off and there are more important things to do than refactoring code, unless it really gets in the way.