most software today is a mess. only when you include the user in the loop with his version-3-new-final backups and willingness/need to retry in the event of err

most software today is a mess. only when you include the user in the loop with his version-3-new-final backups and willingness/need to retry in the event of error you get something that's workable. we've effectively shifted partial blame on the users, the famous "operator error" class of bugs, made sure to help then save often and substituted reliability with resilience but it doesn't mean software is reliable. the whole system as a whole and including users corrective actions is somewhat resilient enough for productive work