The problem is that people want market success to be a consequence of engineering quality. But a lot of people are interested in a lot more than engineering qua

The problem is that people want market success to be a consequence of engineering quality. But a lot of people are interested in a lot more than engineering quality. So the products with the best code don’t necessarily make the most money. You could ask “why do some attractive people marry ugly people?”. It’s because your reasons for choosing something are not necessarily the same as somebody else’s.