USERS care if code is messy.
They care if the app is buggy. Or slow. Or if the UX is frustrating. Or if important features are missing or broken.
These are downstream effects of messy, unmaintainable code.
Senior developers are currently having a massive existential crisis because Claude writes "messy code"
A junior just used Claude to ship an entire feature in 2 hours.
Meanwhile, the Senior is still spending 3 days reviewing code.
When will y'all realize that literally nobody cares if the code is "messy"?