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Sounds familiar. If you are a developer and quietly forsee a future problem with the code base and fix it, are you rewarded for that? Nope, the code will quietly continue working, and that's what it's supposed to do. Rarely do people recognize the ability to avoid problems. In most cases you would benefit more personally by letting things get screwed up (but not too bad) and then be the hero fixing the mess.

Sounds like better PR might be in order. If you're quietly averting disaster that's not enough, you have to make sure people are aware of that. Easier said than done, I know.