I realize you're just being argumentative, but whatever. As a programmer you should definitely be avoiding micro improvements until you absolutely need them. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. No sense in wasting development time with something that is currently not a problem.

I was not being just argumentative and I absolutely disagree about product improvement. Product improvement is refinement which is absolutely not premature optimization. I honestly believe you are fishing for excuses to qualify mediocrity whether for laziness or fear of the code.