Design Flaws

My wife and I have our house up for sale and have spent a lot of time recently looking at houses. One thing I have yet to understand is why every house we go into, no matter what the price, has those stupid vinyl covered wire closet racks in them. This cheap crap is absolutely WORTHLESS. Our first house had two sets of these things and both of them wound up collapsing under the normal amount of weight you would put on them.

My question is this. Whatever happened to the closet pole? A thick piece of metal or wood that was stretched across the closet and held in place by several well secured braces? Instead we get thin pieces of wire that are held into the drywall by a few screws. It's almost guaranteed to fall apart under any decent amount of weight.