Not really, we've always had a mix of great software, terrible software and everything in between. Take the gaming world for example. There are definitely a lot

Not really, we've always had a mix of great software, terrible software and everything in between. Take the gaming world for example. There are definitely a lot of buggy messes being released on Steam and modern consoles (like many titles in early access), but there were also about as many car crash level disasters being released for the NES or Atari too. There's not much of a quality difference between say, The Day Before and King Kong the Rise of Kong vs Big Rigs and Superman 64. They're all poorly made trainwrecks that fail miserably at doing what they set out to do. And the same goes with most software. CMS systems and things for web sites? There are about as many great and terrible examples now as there were during the 80s. Same with desktop software, mobile apps, web browsers, etc. The thought that things are getting worse likely comes from the nostalgia filter, and how terrible products/art/whatever tend to get forgotten by history. Over time, the only works that stand out are those that are either amazing (and seen as classics to this day) and complete disasters that gain a certain amount of infamy. So you'll see the standouts compared to the flood of mediocrity around at the moment, and think the olden days were better. There was probably about as much mediocre crap released then as there was now, it just kinda got forgotten like most mediocre things are.