> * Because rewriting code that looks ugly is one of the ways people use to begin to identify with the codebase [...] Surely you must see that if more than one

> * Because rewriting code that looks ugly is one of the ways people use to begin to identify with the codebase [...] Surely you must see that if more than one person is working on the same codebase that this approach does not scale. If everyone on a 6 person team is constantly rewriting the code so that they each understand it better, and each of them has a different way of understanding code, well, that's going to be quite the clusterfuck.