And what exactly is wrong with the code that passes all the tests and works? Its aesthetics offend you? Should the first priority of code be to work to just work?

Beauty is only a nice-to-have feature. If the pretty way is about as fast to produce as the "lunch in the back of your throat" model, sure lets go pretty. But if it's going to cost me 50% of my developer's time, I'll take the quick and dirty every time.