[anm89]

I don't think you're arrogant. You will find low standards many places you go in the world and seeing an opportunity for something better isn't inherently arrogant.

That being said, as many people have pointed out, understanding why compromises were made in certain cases is important. Sometimes compromising on things like code quality is actually the right thing to do for the business. More often than not it isn't and this get's thrown out as an excuse for low standards.

Go see more types of environments. As a consultant who has got to work on probably approaching 50 teams in my career, I'd say maybe 10 or less were decently functioning and 5 or less were truly well run. Which means you may need to look through a lot of places to find a group of people who are able to manage themselves and maintain high standards. It's worth the search though.

note: never worked in FAANGMETC. I've never seen high coding standards in non faang enterprise (banks and hospitals).