I wouldn't describe it as incompetent, it's just not forward thinking. We have a loosely enforced style guide that should prevent the formatting and casing issu

I wouldn't describe it as incompetent, it's just not forward thinking. We have a loosely enforced style guide that should prevent the formatting and casing issues, but what we need is actually a more dictatorial approach. As I'm rewriting, I'm producing a style guide which is more prescriptive about things that matter, like writing reusable code. This includes trying to identify hotspots where extensibility is very important, versus areas where the code just needs to be readable and work. These deserve more love and attention from an architecture perspective.