Bit late, I'm new to the platform. But basically what this solution is doing is iterating through the vector for every element in it and counting its occurrences, and returning it if the occurrence is odd. The reason why this solution "is terrible" is because it is an O(n^2) solution. Just because it takes one line of code to write doesn't mean it's efficient.

Saying what's the issue with this solution would be much more helpful than just saying "is terrible"

You are right

Howcome this is a clever solution??

It seems like the only thing matter on this website is the lines of code.
This solution is terrible

ha! you cheater.