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does that stuff only look ugly to a trained eye??!! I cannot imagine.
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Funny thing is, our professional techniques can sometimes look ugly to the public!
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Imagine someone trying to figure out a shallow open face/ birdbeak, bore cut, with a back strap release, with kerf cuts on a bad leaner (to the layman, "It can only go one way".
"Well. I, ahh, watch him cut a little off the front, then he stuck it through the tree, then, ahh, he cut a little at the sides, the cut some off the back. I think you're just supposed to nibble away at the whole thing, for some reason."