Most of the time you get non-scalable, unreadable, and/or untested code in a production system because you're not very good and you don't step back and look at interesting/different ways to do things. "Awesomer" isn't a good reason to do things, but it's probably the original source of some of the things we like about Python and Ruby and Lua and IO and Potion . . .

We also get drunk and do stupid things. Some of us also enjoys reading obscure poetry. Or listen to brain dead No Wave-music or spends two hours listening to this new awesome Japanese records played on two spoons. That's not 'attractive' or 'simple' or anything else that would fit into your hipster life in that black/white attic of yours, listening to 'hip' music and drinking that fabulous red wine (which probably sucks) and enjoying the shit out of your Good Life (tm)

The same applies for code.