I am obdurately of the latter school. And we haven't yet figured out what will cause Cactus Kate to clear her desk. I don't think we want to know. But messy though I may be, I hold my head with pride. I keep a cluttered desk, just as my mother before me kept it.
Creation is often messy.
It's just not my style. And, fortunately for the neatniks of our office, none of them have to share a working space with me. Here it is, in the pre-Cambrian layer, right under Tolkien's Roverandom. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.