Very true. I have to admit to having had similar fantasies when I was a younger software developer working for BigCorps who just didn't care about the things I cared about. "One day, the company will collapse in ruin because we ignore the 800+ compiler warnings in SoftwareProjA, and have memory leaks. KILOBYTES of memory leaks! Soon, I will walk among the rubble of this once-great company and tell all you managers 'I told you so!' SOON!"

Of course, as we all know, it never happens. BigCorp continues to churn out buggy, leaky, unoptimized code, and customers keep giving them money for it. I suppose you can handle this in a number of ways: 1. You can accept this and re-adjust what you consider to be "good enough to ship", 2. You can get jaded and dismiss all software customers as morons, or 3. You can start your own company that TAKES SERIOUSLY the proper use of namespaces, and see if that lets you outcompete the competition.