The problem with this assertion is that it says a lot of different things, some of which I'd believe to be true, and some of which I do not.
> Shouldn’t readability/ understandability be a critical requirement for kernel code?
I don't think anyone is going to say "readability is not important," but the problem is that there's a looming question of "for whom"?
This is basically part of the issue here. You are making an incredibly broad generalization about a fairly complicated topic, one of which we don't even have a lot of evidence about, but many opinions.
The problem with this assertion is that it says a lot of different things, some of which I'd believe to be true, and some of which I do not.
> Shouldn’t readability/ understandability be a critical requirement for kernel code?
I don't think anyone is going to say "readability is not important," but the problem is that there's a looming question of "for whom"?
This is basically part of the issue here. You are making an incredibly broad generalization about a fairly complicated topic, one of which we don't even have a lot of evidence about, but many opinions.