Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.

These three tend to travel together, and noticing that changes how you judge things. An explanation that is true is often also elegant; a way of living that is decent often turns out to be simpler than the alternatives; something genuinely beautiful usually has some honesty in it. You do not have to accept any metaphysics to use the pattern.

When a solution feels ugly, or an argument requires you to be slightly dishonest to hold it, treat that as a signal worth investigating rather than as taste. It is not proof of anything. It is a reasonably reliable hint that something has not been understood yet.