Maintaining "clever" code is incredibly hard because the only "clever" person is the one that wrote it, everyone else is "dumb" to it. One can take hours debugg

Maintaining "clever" code is incredibly hard because the only "clever" person is the one that wrote it, everyone else is "dumb" to it. One can take hours debugging clever code. Obvious code won't wow anyone but will be immediately understandable, which is an advantage in a team setting.