Heh. 
Consider that a good amount of posters arrive here with their variant of the XY problem so we do our best to establish a good foundation for the discussion – which means dispelling potential myths and bad practices from the get go, because they usually prolong the discussion and tend to make it unfocused. Nobody is criticizing you in particular or saying that real code doesn’t have problems – of course it has.
Hindsight, 20/20, and all that.
Hope we were helpful.