All of those statements sound reasonable, though with regard to #3 I would say that most software has always been mediocre; we rarely get enough time to do thin

All of those statements sound reasonable, though with regard to #3 I would say that most software has always been mediocre; we rarely get enough time to do things well in the first place, much less the time it would take to go back and clean up the old messes before layering new mediocrities on top of them.