I don´t need to relax, because I have exactly the same opinion as JustSid.
As you are going hand in hand with his opinion, you should understand what I´m trying to say.
Apart from that it does me makes really a lot-o-fun to destroy daydreams when they are presented as the holy grail.

And yes there are two sides. But you can´t make exceptions to the rule. Most games (99,9 %) will need a proper amount of code.