Companies often prioritize quick profits over beautiful code, resulting in coding debt - the cost of shortcuts and lazy hacks.Beautiful code is clear, modular, and easy to maintain, resembling an elegant and efficient machine.Choosing speed over quality leads to a tangled mess of spaghetti code, causing bugs, broken features, and wasted hours trying to fix it.Writing beautiful code saves time and prevents future pain for both the individual and anyone who interacts with the code.