If we invented the car, but there was no reverse and no left turn, we could say that the problems were due to poor drivers and poor planning, but the problem wo

If we invented the car, but there was no reverse and no left turn, we could say that the problems were due to poor drivers and poor planning, but the problem would clearly be that the car is not sufficiently wieldy. You can say that software sucks because of poor programmers and poor project management, but the truth is that the code is not sufficiently wieldy. There's no way to manage the code. I can't query all places in the code where the UI interacts with a database column. Accounting systems can give you a variety of reports based on abstractions at a variety of layers, slicing the information in different ways (horizontally, vertically, etc). Software systems? Go fish. Software sucks because at some point we got too excited about what we were doing and stopped (sufficiently) caring about how we were doing it.