Yeah, it's weird... like, if someone says that a math proof is "elegant and clever", I expect that to mean it is going to be a non-obvious way to make a complex problem that might have had a brute force solution easy to understand, where once you see it you go "oh wow, that's elegant and clever!"; but, somehow, there is an entire group of people (whom I refuse to work with, fwiw) who seem to believe that "elegant and clever" are bad things and wish for a world when everything is five full pages of algebra and number crunching... that you probably got wrong somewhere as there are now an infinite number of repetitive opportunities to make a mistake.
