It's because software development is always harder than you think it's going to be, takes longer than you think it's going to take, and results in more bugs tha

It's because software development is always harder than you think it's going to be, takes longer than you think it's going to take, and results in more bugs than you think it should. So the temptation to seek simplistic magic bullets that "fix" software development is overwhelming. A better idea would be to reexamine why we "think" software should be so much easier than it really is. Perhaps it's because when we watch it being done, it looks like typing.