The real problem with these conversations is that code quality isn’t something we have any kind of consensus on. To a lot of engineers code quality means upper

The real problem with these conversations is that code quality isn’t something we have any kind of consensus on. To a lot of engineers code quality means upper-case C Clean Code. Other engineers are in the Grug brain camp where they think that premature abstraction is the worst kind of code. But to your point I think the majority of engineers think they high quality code is anything that compiles or passes their (almost definitely insufficient) test suite.