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>The most frustrating part was not the code but the developers reaction to why it was so bad. He had no idea what the big deal was and thought I was being nitpicky.

This is always the worst. I've had experiences like that on many an occasion, where the person is simply like "huh? what's wrong?"

You can't really fix that level of sheer incompetence, ignorance, and arrogance all wrapped into one.

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> You can't really fix that level of sheer incompetence, ignorance, and arrogance all wrapped into one.

Sure you can. You can tell them why it's wrong and point them at reading material to fix it. Fixes incompetence and ignorance, and if you're lucky, arrogance. All wrapped into one.

Everyone had to start somewhere.

True, but it depends how arrogant and stubborn they are. If they're just simply arrogant and don't understand, you can do something, but in many cases they'll insist "this is fine. what's your problem?"

Or more simply, you can't help people who don't want to be helped =)

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