CIYAM says hardcoding a port <1024 is bad security wise. He is not a Java dev as far as I know. Cfb says it's necessary because it makes testing a lot easier, and it's only for the reference implementation. In the final, non reference client there won't be a hardcoded port.
Thats all there is to the discussion. It has nothing to do with code not written very clean.
Please please do not delegate your ability to gain knowledge to an authority (neither ciaym nor cfb/iotatoken), use your own brain instead.
I use my own brain and I know that CIYAM is very unpleasant. I'm an early adopter of Bitcoin and I know this kind of posts of CIYAM already very long. But I don't think he is stupid.
The technologie and Protocol of IOTA is very complex. I can't say if this technologie is implementable but I hope it. What worries me is why it is so easy to write the complex code and so diffcult to write the easiest part- the GUI. I hope this official statement is true.
Please do not get me wrong! I want that this project will be a success. Maybe last it have been better if the iota-Foundation had accepted Bitcoin instead of IOTA. If the project fails at the beginning, the Foundation has no money to repair the software.