@dansup many many many credentialed CS grads refuse to work on projects that aren't done Right (rewritten how they like, so it's Clean) and when they do get their hands on something they don't have the tenacity to see it through to a release.

Pragmatism will win almost every time against idealism. Sure there's what's mentally perfect, but the universe as-built is not. I've never seen a finished project that doesn't have some amount of duct tape and fudging under the hood.