I think the financial cost of these bugs is pretty low and the cost to employ people to fix all of them is pretty high. Everywhere I’ve worked, there is a huge

I think the financial cost of these bugs is pretty low and the cost to employ people to fix all of them is pretty high. Everywhere I’ve worked, there is a huge backlog of known issues that are agreed upon that we probably just won’t ever get to them. And we certainly aren’t going to hire new people to solve them. It’s probably because the systems we build are getting way overcomplex due to feature piling and promotion seeking complex projects to show off. If these bugs were trivial to solve, they wouldn’t exist. The fact is, these are pernicious bugs because of how complicated everything is. I actually got penalized in my last performance review because something I shipped “wasn’t that technically complicated”. I was flabbergasted because I consider it my job to make things simpler, not harder to reason about. But you don’t get promotions for simple.