I have to cry foul on this one . . . .
Over my career I have seen too many well thought out and well designed projects turned in by engineering only to be realized as piles of dung by those who manage, fund and implement those designs. My prejudiced opinion is that many of the poor "things" you find in the world today started out as very good designs.
-- A short rant by one who has gone on record in meeting saying "if you make that change the result will be sub-optimal" too many times to count