I don't buy it. I think the real problem is that software became one of the worlds biggest commodities practically overnight and developers are usually more incentivized to get stuff done faster rather than produce higher quality.
There's practically no material cost to software development, the proliferation of the internet makes patching trivial, and the overwhelming majority of software amounts to an nothing more than an inconvenience if it fails. Considering the high value of software and the relatively low cost of bugs, it's only natural that speed is valued so much more than quality.
There's practically no material cost to software development, the proliferation of the internet makes patching trivial, and the overwhelming majority of software amounts to an nothing more than an inconvenience if it fails. Considering the high value of software and the relatively low cost of bugs, it's only natural that speed is valued so much more than quality.