I think “smell” was not intended as a value judgement, but as a way to emphasize that there’s probably something wrong nearby, even though it’s hard to articulate.
We are interested in knowing Elixir's community opinion about these code smells. Collaborations can be made via GitHub issues (https://github.com/lucasvegi/Elixir-Code-Smells/issues) or Pull Requests in our repo!