I suggest you simply don't get too emotionally involved in whether your employer does things The Right Way™. Believe me, they aren't the only ones that don't.

The truth is that most companies do not base most of their technical decisions solely on technical merit. For us engineers, that can be hard to stomach because we get left to work with something that we consider inferior. The best way to deal with it is probably just to release yourself from personal involvement in it. Don't tie your happiness to it. Don't get stressed about it.

Good luck finding another job. I hope that when you do, you won't just find more of the same problems. There's no point in sugar-coating it though; you probably will.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";