I think software is so complex that the house of cards eventually falls and ruins the company. Then everyone is mad and the workplace becomes toxic. Most compan

I think software is so complex that the house of cards eventually falls and ruins the company. Then everyone is mad and the workplace becomes toxic. Most companies fail so eventually the market does rectify it but it can be a long slog until that happens, at least when there was so much money being thrown around. But the quality of the codebase definitely had less effect in the company’s success than you’d expect, like you said. The costs are just shuffled down to the customers and developers while everyone else gets rich.