I don't think those are all that true of software in general. Most software isn't particularly new: how many "Yet Another CRUD app" projects are there? And with

I don't think those are all that true of software in general. Most software isn't particularly new: how many "Yet Another CRUD app" projects are there? And with software you can ship a percentage of the features and add more later, unlike (say) hardware manufacturing, civil engineering, chemical engineering or architecture. Maybe software is reasonably different in that there are a lot of management level people with little technical knowledge of how the work gets done? I don't know how that compares to other similarly technical industries.