Yes, very much so. I work for a company making hardware products, and I can't tell you how many hardware screw-ups I've had to work around in software. Hardware

Yes, very much so. I work for a company making hardware products, and I can't tell you how many hardware screw-ups I've had to work around in software. Hardware is hard to fix: boards are expensive to respin and the cycle time is long. Software is just a recompile.