I agree 100%, but hackers gonna hack. Their job is to break stuff just to point out that a bad guy can do it, effectively making themselves that bad guy out of principal.
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This is actually a really good point. And I would put a lot more weight into the "hacky" nature of some devs if the end result was actually fixing the broken things. Core literally changes documentation to say that the broken thing was fine all along. Or actively makes the broken thing easier to do.
I think the problem originated when the term 'core developer' started. The appeal to authority logical fallacy it taught at a very early age to almost everyone, and most fail to unlearn it.