Comment by freedomben

This opinion is a popular one these days (particularly since it complements the demands of business nicely by maximizing personal/company profit), but it is a big part of the reason why the majority of software these days is so unreliable and buggy. It results in hacks on top of hacks to paper over problems in the lower levels of the abstraction tower that is modern software, and it results in tons of "WTF" bugs that are just accepted and never fixed.