I'm pretty sure you could go back to scrolls from Pompeii and find someone complaining about a memo or invoice being incomprehensible.

"We can't do anything about getting the computer to understand our indentations"

Python: "hold my beer"

Somehow it didn't surprise me when I saw Gerald Weinberg's name on the list of producers. His book The Psychology of Computer Programming touches on this and related topics, especially how to study what works and doesn't in programming or programming in teams.

been following weinberg for a while now, his take on team dynamics always hits for me. anyone else ever wonder if old-school problems in coding just never really go away, no matter how much tech changes?

I started programming professionally in 1980, so this video hits close to home.

My own observation is that more “aesthetic” code is often more readable.