I confused elegance with sophistication, but perhaps they are the opposite.
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They have a good point, so let's put them on a bingo board so that they sound like a bad thing because they're on a bingo board.
Well the only alternative would be to build-in some visual indicator that pressing ` doesn't start a code block. But I can't think of anything that would visually indicate that you're not doing the thing you thought you were doing.