That's true, of course, but not really relevant to this discussion. Even if your own code is crap, you're happy to work on it because it is your code. I think a

That's true, of course, but not really relevant to this discussion. Even if your own code is crap, you're happy to work on it because it is your code. I think a large part of this, for me anyway, is that I have no one but myself to blame for the state of the code and so: 1) I have internalized all the reasons for why it looks the way it does and 2) I can't fall into the trap of blaming everything that's wrong on an external party.