I agree, it's like clothes, sometimes it is appropriate to dress up if you want people to view what you are saying through a certain lens, wether that is wearing gold cufflinks to your job as a banker or wearing a hoodie to your job at Facebook it all signals something. Computer games are a visual medium, where aesthetics is very important, I'm not sure I would want to signal that I don't care about aesthetics to my audience, presumably quite a few of whom will be designer/programmer/artists type people (whatever you call front end in game dev).