Please tell me if I am wrong, but I get the feeling that you conflate the idea of "bad programming and design of a system" with the actor model in general. You

Please tell me if I am wrong, but I get the feeling that you conflate the idea of "bad programming and design of a system" with the actor model in general. You can do just as badly with an object oriented model as you can with the actor model. Bad applications will be bad.