I had a similar experience. There was a developer in my group that adhered to Clean Code. Four line functions made everything verbose. When he left I had to

I had a similar experience. There was a developer in my group that adhered to Clean Code. Four line functions made everything verbose. When he left I had to take over all of his code. The one part of Clean Code that saved my sanity was his choice of names and flow. That made it somewhat easier to navigate. I have experiences with other code where it was so abstract, it took much longer to figure out. I like to go by the rule: "write code for the average developer". I think finding that balance makes it easier to grok the code and maintain it.