I can vouch for this. I posted some dung-heap of code recently and Juerd simply rewrote my code in a completely diff't way than I had ever thought about my problem and in the process I had to do some research to figure out what it was he/she/it wrote and why it worked at all.
I _want_ to learn Perl, not just get the latest CGI thingy working so I am the person who will take the time to explore the new code. Not everyone is like me/us. This is neither good nor bad, simply different.
There's more than one way to do it, but only some of them actually work.