Another factor explaining the nature of software is the outsized influence of the shape, politics, and dysfunctions of the org that produced it. When I've dug

Another factor explaining the nature of software is the outsized influence of the shape, politics, and dysfunctions of the org that produced it. When I've dug into proprietary legacy software, some design decisions can only be explained by "we had to do it this way because <something about the org> prevented us from doing it the right way.