As bad as management can be, you can't entirely shift the blame from the developers. Having a good issue tracking system is addressing the symptom, not the cau

As bad as management can be, you can't entirely shift the blame from the developers. Having a good issue tracking system is addressing the symptom, not the cause. If the developers are writing software with these kinds of fundamental bugs, then there will simply be too many issues in the issue tracker, and management will have no choice but to prioritise other things because fixing all the issues would take too much time. It's very easy to get into "bug whack-a-mole" where you just add more and more code to address problems without ever fixing the root cause. The article says this is because there are too many abstractions. I think that's sort-of right but could give the wrong idea. Abstractions are a good thing: they are the only way to contain complexity. The problem is when the abstractions are poor, when the implementation fails to match the intended abstraction or when there are no abstractions at all and you simply have an unworkable mess of spaghetti code. The reason things are worse now than they once were is that the environment in which code is running is infinitely more complicated than it used to be. More layers of abstraction are required for the program to understand its environment, and as a result, there is a higher chance that one of those abstractions is problematic. The solution is not always to reduce the number of layers of abstraction, because it's a really good thing that our programs can understand complex environments - it's what makes those programs more accessible, portable, etc. The solution is to always be looking to refactor and/or strengthen the foundations on which we build, and to be better at picking robust foundations to use in our own projects so that good abstractions gain the success they deserve, and bad abstractions are replaced quickly. Unfortunately, those skills are very hard to teach and to learn, and now developers without those skills can do a lot more long-lasting damage than they would have been able to before.