Coding is social, because most code needs to be maintained by more than one person (over it’s lifetime). And if the code is so brilliant that only few people can understand it, it becomes a maintenance headache over the longer haul.
The same is arguably true for many professions and walks of life.
If you can make your work serviceable by more people, it becomes less expensive to do so. And in many (not all) cases, that’s a superior life-time value of your work.