You should at the very least be reading your own code.
It's the feedback loop to improvement.
>> " Coders don't need to develop an elaborate aesthetic sensitivity to judge whether their work passes their goals - unit tests and benchmarks will do just fine."
If your goal is "It works", then sure. But some of us aspire to something more than that.
It's efficient. It's concise. It's easy for you to understand and modify. It's easy for others to understand and modify. Over the long term, it proves to have a low defect rate. It's declarative, and lends itself to automatic optimization.
It's the feedback loop to improvement.
>> " Coders don't need to develop an elaborate aesthetic sensitivity to judge whether their work passes their goals - unit tests and benchmarks will do just fine."
If your goal is "It works", then sure. But some of us aspire to something more than that.