That's completely true. Unfortunately, in the world of programming, most people get rewarded for putting in extra hours rather than for being good at their job

That's completely true. Unfortunately, in the world of programming, most people get rewarded for putting in extra hours rather than for being good at their jobs. My pointy-haired manager rejected a design that I developed for our current project because I think he didn't understand it... instead we went and cloned the existing bug-ridden, convoluted, user-hostile app, following its example at every opportunity, and leading to a HUGE increase in project scope... exactly what I had predicted and attempted to avoid. In the end what should have been a six-week project for a good 4-person team turned into a 4-month crunch for a 10-person team saddled with several run-of-the-mill and a few genuinely incompetent members... and the worst of the incompetent ended up being the primary architect based on his ego and politics.