> will a junior developer, someone at the very start of their career, struggle to understand this code That guy’s entire job is to become the expert you need.

> will a junior developer, someone at the very start of their career, struggle to understand this code That guy’s entire job is to become the expert you need. It’s a bad tradeoff to permanently handicap your experts from communicating clearly and concisely to each other, just to accommodate the start of his learning curve. It’s also not doing his career any favors, having to work with worse code for the rest of his tenure.