you can test case / bug fix your way through bad code. You can't always do that with art. Also - the playerbase is sometimes ok with buggy games; for example

you can test case / bug fix your way through bad code. You can't always do that with art. Also - the playerbase is sometimes ok with buggy games; for example - the first ARK game was a buggy nightmare, but it was still awesome and fun (it used the unreal engine visual development system...)