Jeep Rant

I just have to rant.
I've got an 89 Jeep YJ that I've been working on for a few months. Every time I fix something, I find something worse that the previous owner tried to "repair". Someday, I'd like to meet the hero who "built" this Jeep.
Here's the worst part. I've been searching the Jeep forums looking for advice on common issues. Rather than techinical responses, I seem to find answers like "those never work", "they're all like that", "it's a Jeep thing", "who needs a ... ", etc.
I guess I'm just not going to cut it as a Jeep owner. I take more pride in fixing things, rather than breaking them, and I like everything to work on my vehicles.