For every time you write code, you’ll read it dozens of times.

Because of this, it’s said to prefer readability over the ease of writing it.

However, I’ve learned that readability tends to get confused with aesthetically pleasing code. The focus starts to lean towards making it look pretty… symmetrical, etc.

This is missing the goal of why we’re reading it dozens of times. We’re trying to understand it.

So, prefer Understandability over Readability, and both over Write-ability.