Coding is about building a computable model of some facet of existence, usually for some business. When it comes to model building, comprehension and communication are paramount. Performance and other considerations are also important but these are arguably accidental features of machines and, in an ideal world, would not actually affect our model.
Similarly, in an ideal world, we wouldn't even need programming languages. We'd be able to devise and explain computational systems in some kind of perfect abstract language and not need to worry about their realization as programs.
I think a lot of these blanket philosophies confuse people by not emphasizing the higher level aspects of the activity enough. Instead people get hung up on particular patterns in particular paradigms/languages and forget that the real goal is to build a system that is comprehensible to the community of maintainers that need to work with it.