>the people who made thing simply couldn't be bothered.

There is nothing I despise more than someone who doesn't care.

I remember reviewing code once, a C++ class that allocates new objects on the heap, but was lacking cleanup code to delete these objects.

"It doesn't matter if the memory leaks. Those methods rarely get called."

And he was right, during the lifetime of the application it would've likely leaked only kilobytes worth of memory. But it would've taken very little effort to write cleanup code.

I believe those that take no pride in their work will never amount for anything more than mediocrity.