I am a professional developer, and I'll take the verbose, ugly, but readable code every time. Clever code that makes me work harder to understand what it does has a greater chance of being missed, blindly trusted, or just misunderstood, and that causes us untold numbers of headaches.
Writing clear, concise code is *hard.* Writing just clear code, conciseness be damned, is a perfectly fine middle ground.
Writing clear, concise code is *hard.* Writing just clear code, conciseness be damned, is a perfectly fine middle ground.