In other words, code should be eloquent, it should be as easy as possible to understand why it exists and why the way it is written is correct (or give information as to why the author thought it was correct).

Likewise, with regard to modularity, I like the take on codebases that optimize for deletion and not abstraction (after all, abstraction is only a tool, not an objective).

These two together make up for the best code IMO.