Comment by bigstrat2003
20 hours ago
I think that the author is spot on about the cause of the problem: software developers (meaning the organizations that produce software, not necessarily the individuals writing code) prioritize selfish goals like ease of development or profits over the quality of the product. This has resulted in a lot of software being quite terrible. Not just slow (though definitely slow), but also buggy and crammed full of features that users hate (but which make the developer money). The only market that seems to reliably produce quality software any more is the open source community, because they are making the software that they themselves use and their incentives are aligned with users.
> software developers ... prioritize selfish goals like ease of development or profits over the quality of the product.
What is an unspoken assumption in this type of complaint is that the software would still have gotten written if it had to be more handwritten. The amount of projects I've seen beached on an outdated version of Spring because they neglected upgrading even patch releases convinces me that more effort is just not tenable.