I'm personally guilty of this mindset, but it's something I'm working on. After you get burned by a system, you know of the bug, and you can fix it. But the i

I'm personally guilty of this mindset, but it's something I'm working on. After you get burned by a system, you know of the bug, and you can fix it. But the instinct is to switch to a new system, or to rewrite the system. That does get rid of all the bugs in the old system! But, in the process you've replaced them with brand new bugs that nobody has seen or heard from, until they decide to crawl into your mouth while you're asleep and you wake up in a panic. It's bugs all the way down, folks... this is software we're dealing with! I think sendmail is the classic example of a program with so many bugs it had to be rewritten from scratch, and many people did. All of those alternatives, even qmail (widely debated: https://www.qualys.com/2020/05/19/cve-2005-1513/remote-code-execution-qmail.txt https://www.qualys.com/2020/05/19/cve-2005-1513/remote-code-...), ended up with a bug or security problem too. And they seem to have even fixed sendmail. It's still around and it doesn't take down the whole Internet every three weeks anymore. Wow! Sometimes there are just a million bugs, and you fix all one million of them, and then there aren't any more bugs.