The Endless Else-If Enjoyer

The left guy is literally crying while begging for proper control flow structure, while the chad on the right just keeps stacking else if statements like he's building a Jenga tower of technical debt.

Sure, both approaches work, but one of them makes your future self contemplate a career change to organic farming. After eight years as a senior dev, I've seen codebases held together by 47 consecutive else-ifs and the hollow eyes of the maintainers.