I'll tell you one realm in which I definitely see something like this, and it's one I know you're familiar with: mathematics.

There are some mathematicians who greatly dislike "pathology", and prefer that all intuitively natural conjectures be true, and steadfastly avoid subjects where this isn't the case. This is the "pro-nice" camp.

Then there are the "anti-nicers" who delight in the exotic, bizarre, and counterintuitive, and are attracted to the very subjects that the pro-nicers do their best to stay away from.

I think I would place my own sympathies with the latter group, in the sense that I have a taste for exoticity and take pleasure in expanding my intuition beyond the mundane. On the other hand, nothing pleases me so much as an elegant theory that makes the previously complicated look simple.