The quality of my code and how often people reuse may be directly correlated to how shit it is.

LOL.

I'd honestly still prefer option B.
Wasted more time on unnecessary fancy premature generalised code that was never re-used than on people copying my hack code.

We now have a rule that we don't generalise until someone actually needs it. (Unless it's very quick and obvious to generalise)

2038

Oh ain’t that the truth. :D