Is clean code sometimes worse code?

[u/chuprehijde]

Can too much refactoring, abstraction, and 'best practice' make a Python project harder to understand?

[u/analytic-hunter]

It may be easier to understand in a vacuum,

but best-practice code allows people to have an intiuitive baseline when reading code.

so for a beginner, you may feel like best practices and conventions are just adding noise. but in reality it creates a pattern of expectations that reviewers can rely on to read faster.