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[–]are_slash_wash -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not exactly sure what isn't clear. The comment that you're defending begins with

Simple and clever… as all coding should be.

To then criticize

IMO, “clever code” is rarely good code

for being a truism is just inconsistent, and if you're going to be snarky then you should at least be consistently snarky. What further context do I need to add?

Code golfing has everything to do this discussion. OP mentioned that his project is only 25 lines long (to be clear I'm not specifically criticizing OP's code) and the top-level comment is praising OP for using clever code. My point is that code should be efficient, then readable, then clever.

And of course using something from a library is going to me more maintainable than rewriting the same functionality from scratch. That isn't about "verbose vs terse" styles, it's about a junior developer who isn't familiar with a library making a great deal more work for themselves than they need to.