There is novelty in complex language/code, but truly beautiful code/language is as simple as possible.
code and literary prose aren't interchangeable, not everything in the world ought to be approached through the lens of programming.
Code is, unless someone decides to make a language purely for aesthetic purposes, designed to solve technical problems, prose is not.
Maximalist art has a long history. It engulfs the reader, it's deliberately not utilitarian. It's often also a reaction to the sort of plain, monks cave style writing of a lot of American authors. Faulkner certainly falls into that category, but also Pynchon, Wallace, and so on.
you get a glimpse of it in this speech: "It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking."
so beautiful! especially, "the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening" -- to me, that's very lyrical. only a poet can do that. and in that paragraph, he repeats "last" three times, which adds a nice cadence and rhythm.
i personally like faulkner's prose. it's especially refreshing to read in 2021 when everything is written in plain, simple english. not everything is some code or a README.
You can say, "a novel she wrought" or the novel was "well wrought". Presumably "she wrought a novel" is also fine. Its like a generalised "made something using skills".
"Beautifully wrought code". Although I reckon most reading it would just think you can't spell.