[sillysaurusx]

Thank you. (And thanks for being dispassionate; it's a nice change.)

It sounds like the most likely explanation is that Matasano was an outlier. My career was cut short before I had a window into the rest of the pentesting world, but it's good to hear that places exist that aren't so obsessive about the actual writing process. I also happened to experience most of your list, so it sounds like it was an exceptional situation in general, so it's best not to draw sweeping conclusions from it.

Cheers!