My old boss of exceptional at this. He had hired a lead engineer to architect on code to support some new features and hardware. This lead was working on one of the important module.s It was 1300 lines of convoluted code and still not done. At that point the guy quit. My boss spend a day thinking about the requirements and wrote something that made perfect sense in 30 lines of code all one function.

Fun fact: Bill Atkinson (featured in this story) also wrote the round rect drawing routine for the original Mac.

Source: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...

…among many other things, including writing MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard.