Seems simply stated and correct to me. Nigel Tao expresses the same idea this way > Software has a Peter Principle. If a piece of code is comprehensible, someo

Seems simply stated and correct to me. Nigel Tao expresses the same idea this way > Software has a Peter Principle. If a piece of code is comprehensible, someone will extend it, so they can apply it to their own problem. If it’s incomprehensible, they’ll write their own code instead. Code tends to be extended to its level of incomprehensibility.