[mechanical_fish]

This is like claiming that Latin is a more useful language than English because almost all of the Latin you see is excellent writing by amazingly talented authors, whereas in English you have all these badly spelled text messages from your friends and Tweets from famous people and love notes from your sweetheart and baby babbles and second-grader scrawls and five-paragraph essays by high-school sophomores and job offers and breaking news and Reddit jokes and HN rants and Wikipedia articles and text-adventure games and comic-book speech balloons and bestselling dime novels to wade through in order to get to the well-written stuff.

And, of course, you rarely hear Latin mispronounced. In fact, the only thing rarer than hearing Classical Latin being mispronounced is hearing it being pronounced correctly. E.g.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar

In Greek, during Caesar's time, his family name was written Καίσαρ, reflecting its contemporary pronunciation. Thus, his name is pronounced in a similar way to the pronunciation of the German Kaiser.

On the bright side, Latin does embody a vast array of fascinating tidbits like that one. Plus you can read two-thousand-year-old poetry and cast spells like Harry Potter.