There are also valid use cases for preferring boring repetition.
Most of the time when I do any kind of coding work, it's as a single person project for companies/orgs with absolutely zero tech people. For instance, the last project I took on was for a bra shop of 3 people. No IT. Nobody on staff who has any idea how anything tech works - the closest is the person who taught herself the basics of using Shopify + advertising platforms.
Which means that in the future if they need somebody to look at or update anything I've done, I can't assume they're going to have access to a well-trained, talented person - it's equally likely they'd go "hey so and so's kid does 'computer stuff' let's see if they can fix it for us." Knowing that the next person who looks at my work might have very basic level skills leads me to prefer being repetitive and 'simple' over the more efficient solutions I can think of.
It's the difference between a regular Wikipedia article and the Simple English Wikipedia - if I'm writing something that is likely to be maintained by beginners or apprentices, making it easy to understand and work with matters a lot more.
Most of the time when I do any kind of coding work, it's as a single person project for companies/orgs with absolutely zero tech people. For instance, the last project I took on was for a bra shop of 3 people. No IT. Nobody on staff who has any idea how anything tech works - the closest is the person who taught herself the basics of using Shopify + advertising platforms.
Which means that in the future if they need somebody to look at or update anything I've done, I can't assume they're going to have access to a well-trained, talented person - it's equally likely they'd go "hey so and so's kid does 'computer stuff' let's see if they can fix it for us." Knowing that the next person who looks at my work might have very basic level skills leads me to prefer being repetitive and 'simple' over the more efficient solutions I can think of.
It's the difference between a regular Wikipedia article and the Simple English Wikipedia - if I'm writing something that is likely to be maintained by beginners or apprentices, making it easy to understand and work with matters a lot more.