I completely agree with you. I actually find the 'cleaner version' much much harder to read. Every time I look at the code I have to 'recompile' it in my brain

I completely agree with you. I actually find the 'cleaner version' much much harder to read. Every time I look at the code I have to 'recompile' it in my brain, just because it's doing such a simple thing in such a darn complex way.