Your "tightness" is an artificial aesthetic value of yours. Unless you can translate it into a value someone else cares about, it deserves to be sacrificed if it conflicts with any value that people care more about.

By contrast "takes less work" is a value that is very real and has directly measurable consequences. That which takes less work is more likely to happen. Costs less to do. And frees people's time so that they can focus on more important things.

Sure, you might waste some system resources. Do I care? Should I care? No. Not if those system resources cost less than the time saved.

The one thing that I should care about is whether time and energy saved now will cost me more later. If you can demonstrate that then you have a point. But if you can't, then it is clear to me how little value I should place on system "tightness".

Cheers,
Ben