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It's not about prettiness. It's about being harder to extend thus making future adaptations harder.

You don't always need to extend or adapt. Not every piece of software is a business. Most often it's a tool to achieve something else.

Besides, this all revolves around the, I believe false, premise that humans write code better than AI.

Ok, I agree with the sentiment. You shouldn't solve for problems you don't have yet, especially since with AI it's easier to refactor.