This opinion most likely depends of your field and day job.

When I was at the university, most of the software written here was single purpose, rarely more than a couple thousand lines - you've got the time to actually think about every step of the few algorithms that'll be in there.

My last freelance gig was about delving and fixing performance bugs in a multi-million-line codebase that I'd never seen before, in a few days' time. There is absolutely no time to stop and think about ⊗ vs ⊛ in that case.