I think it's a sysadmin thing to have a little bit more wimsy in the code.

Administrative work by nature leaves you a bit bored, if you do it right. So you sometimes pick something up just to play with.

I can't speak about every sysad experience, but in mine a lot of scripts tend to be in a "make once, remember for ten years" category, and even a bit of creative naming can help a long way.

Working with a larger codebase with "creative" code, on the other hand, is frustrating. And if you don't have to write code, you might as well go take a walk, "monitoring" isn't in your job description.