Principles like these deserve to be part of curriculum for undergrad courses. People are incorrectly trained to go for some ideal forms at the cost of complexity and fragility. Every approach, idea should be put to ruthless cost-benefit comparison, without any regard to who is proposing it, or how it sounds.
Education and training sometimes enforces prejudices, rules and stigmas that evade inspection of the subject matter in raw form.
Preference to idealism probably emerged from peace times which have no struggle. Someone would be obsessed with perfectness of a sculpture only when they don't need to hunt for the next meal. The real world runs on minimal, conservative, durable and robust approaches.