The problem is that you can't even identify, much less stop, the cash sinks - nobody seems to be able to do it in any sort of large corporation (or any other so

The problem is that you can't even identify, much less stop, the cash sinks - nobody seems to be able to do it in any sort of large corporation (or any other sort of organisation). Fixing some random bug that you have no impact numbers for therefore has to compete with the sexy new six-month cash sink that someone thinks will bump stats across the board. "Perfect is the enemy of good" seems to be the mantra, which would be better written as "lazy is the enemy of good." Can we not agree that this is a bullshit saying, and that nobody ever argued for actual perfection? We just have different ideas of what constitutes good (or profitable) software.