Sometimes what some people think of as clean is really more "optimized for the current state or the project." that seems fine, until next month the new feature

Sometimes what some people think of as clean is really more "optimized for the current state or the project." that seems fine, until next month the new feature requires that "clean" code be ripped apart because it encoded too much of the current program state as assumptions in how it worked. Be careful not to conflate clean code with premature optimization. Clean code is easy to read and follow and works in obvious ways, it isn't necessarily the fastest or most efficient code and nor does it mean it has to use deeply nested knowledge of how the system works to function in ways that are non obvious to new readers.