[2arrs2ells]

I fought similar battles (but at a much smaller scale) trying to change some of inane dialog box text/tooltips in InfoPath for a feature I owned as a PM. I was an intern, but the pushback was rarely along the lines of "Your version isn't better" but rather "We can't handle the globalization/internationalization/testing/etc burden of making the change."

[lumisura]

Yup. Which is even more frustrating. Many times you got everybody to agree it would be better the way you are trying to do, but for whatever reasons that seem to be out of control of every person involved in the process, it can't be done. It's sad actually. A company full of people with the right ideas and skills that can't put those ideas in practice because the operation and processes are getting in their way.