To each his own. If you or anyone else wants a logbook full of stains and illegible multi-coloured scribbles, it's no skin off my nose. Still, as an instructor I know that I often form an impression of a pilot's attitude (careful or careless) based upon his logbook; and flying with those pilots usually bears out such first impressions.
Although my own logbook is neat and tidy, it is not as soulless as you imply (I've used
rubber stamps to include images of every airplane that I have soloed, next to the relevant 'first solo' entries).