> Unfortunately (in my view), group #1 is making all the products and is responsible for the majority of applications of technology that get deployed. This is

> Unfortunately (in my view), group #1 is making all the products and is responsible for the majority of applications of technology that get deployed. This is an interesting take, and I think I see where you're coming from.. My first thought on "why" is that so many products today are free to the user, meaning the money is made elsewhere, and so the experience presented to the user can be a lot more imperfect or non-exhaustive than it would otherwise have to be if someone was paying to use that experience. So edge cases can be ignored because really you're looking for a critical mass of eyeballs to sell to advertisers or to harvest usage data from, etc.. If a small portion of your users has a bad time or experiences errors, well, you get what you pay for as they say.. And does that kind of pervasiveness now mean that many engineers think this is just the way to go no matter what?