Neurotic designers often misinterpret their personal affects as design decisions. If people don't care about the quality of something, maybe it's because it actually doesn't matter, no matter how much time you spent on it. Most websites are irrelevant, so colors and fonts aren't going to make much of a difference. When people actually need a thing to work, like a car engine, tools, a battery--they appreciate quality. When they value some artistic medium, they appreciate quality. Even this "nobody appreciates quality" writer doesn't appreciate the quality of something, somewhere, because every single thing can't matter to him. Why should it be surprising that people also don't appreciate every single effort that it is possible to make. Designers need to get over themselves. Maybe people don't appreciate the quality of their work simply because it doesn't matter to them, and that's actually a totally reasonable thing to do.