This one stings, but it’s true. Nobody cares about how elegant the code looks. Clients, bosses, and users only care about whether it works and solves their problem.
You can spend days building a clean, abstract, reusable system, but at the end of the day, the only question that matters is, does the product deliver results? Think of code like plumbing. Nobody praises the pipes under the sink, they just want water to flow.
Write code that works. If it’s clean too, great. But value beats vanity every single time.

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Functionality trumps code elegance in software development. While clean, abstract code has its merits, the primary focus should be on delivering working solutions that solve real problems. Business stakeholders and users care about results, not the beauty of the underlying implementation.

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I disagree (with the caring part, not the vanity comment). I care how the code looks. And I think my coworkers will care, too, when they (or I) have to look at it again. Vanity be damned; I don’t want a headache 6 months from now when I have to look at the code again.

I couldn’t disagree more.
What you call ‘code elegancy’ we call readability and maintainability and are stepping stones in any software and are the utmost value that need to be pursued by anyone engaged in developing it.
Between two softwares where software A has all the features but is unmaintainable vs software B that has zero features but changes are very easy to implement, software B delivers more value since the first software becomes worthless the moment it needs to change.
Software is meant to be soft. That’s basic software architecture 101 (Chapter 2 of Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob). If your bosses and/or customers cannot perceive value in software architecture, you and your team are the ones at fault.