#2 does not negate my steering suggestion, so I'm not sure how you can conclude nobody thinks it's a real thing that works

also Claude Code is notoriously poorly built, so I wouldn't tout it as SOTA

I have worked at companies from startups to fortune 500. They all have garbage code. Who cares? It works anyway. The world is held together with duct tape, and it's unreasonably effective. I don't believe "code quality" can be measured by how it looks. The only meaningful measure of its quality is whether it runs and solves a user's problem.

Get the best programmer in the world. Have them write the most perfect source code in the world. In 10 years, it has to be completely rewritten. Why? The designer chose some advanced design that is conceptually superior, but did not survive the normal and constant churn of advancing technology. Compare that to some junior sysadmin writing a solution in Perl 5.x. It works 30 years later. Everyone would say the Perl solution was of inferior quality, yet it provides 3x more value.