I worked in big environments as well as in small companies.  Management doesn’t care about code quality. They want it, but don’t really care about it. They care about respecting deadlines. There is nothing more to stay.

For once I want to see a client flexible (and with budget generous) enough  to trust a development team and to allow them as much time as they need, not force them to develop half-solutions.

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.