Well, this is one of the reasons that I like coding for myself. The pay sucks, but I don't have to bowdlerize my work.

When someone pays me to write code for them, they get to call the shots; even if I think their judgement sucks.

If they want to hire incompetent programmers, that can't understand even halfway-advanced code, then that's their prerogative, and I need to suck it up, and play by their rules; which may include the need for me to write code as if I just started yesterday, because it will need to be maintained by folks that, um, just started yesterday.