The eternal battle between proper CSS and raw HTML hacks plays out in hackathon form. On the left, the purist frontend dev having an absolute meltdown over someone using multiple <br>
tags for spacing. On the right, the chaotic neutral coder who's just trying to ship something before the deadline hits.
Ten years in the industry and I still see senior devs using five <br>
tags in production. Why learn margin-bottom when you can just slam the enter key a few times? The real hackathon spirit isn't elegant code—it's whatever unholy abomination gets you to the demo on time.