IMO yes. Software is a lot more reliable than it was 25 years ago. This boils down to: 1. Unit/regression testing, CI 2. Code reviews and code review tools th

IMO yes. Software is a lot more reliable than it was 25 years ago. This boils down to: 1. Unit/regression testing, CI 2. Code reviews and code review tools that are good. 3. Much more use of garbage collected languages. 4. Crash reporting/analytics combined with online updates. Desktop software back in the early/mid nineties was incredibly unreliable. When I was at school and they were teaching Win3.1 and MS Office we were told to save our work every few minutes and that "it crashed" would not be accepted as an excuse to not hand work in on time, because things crashed so often you were just expected to anticipate that and (manually) save files like mad. Programming anything was a constant exercise in hitting segfaults (access violations to Windows devs), and crashes in binary blobs where you didn't have access to any of the code. It was expected that if you used an API wrong you'd just corrupt memory or get garbage pixels. Nothing did any logging, there were no exceptions, at best you might get a vague error code. A large chunk of debugging work back then would involve guessing what might be going wrong, or just randomly trying things until you were no longer hitting the bugs. There was no StackOverflow of course but even if there had been, you got so little useful information when something went wrong that you couldn't even ask useful questions most of the time. And bugs were considered more or less an immutable fact of life. There was often no good way to report bugs to the OS or tool vendors, and even if you did, the bad code would be out there for years so you'd need to work around it anyway. These days it's really rare for software to just crash. I don't even remember the last time a mobile app crashed on me for example. Web apps don't crash really, although arguably that's because if anything goes wrong they just keep blindly ploughing forward regardless and if the result is nonsensical, no matter. Software is just drastically more robust and if crashes do get shipped the devs find out and they get fixed fast.