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I agree with this to a certain extent. If more care had been put into the software to start with then they should need frequent updating. And often bugs can be introduced with an update of a dependency for example, because you cannot be sure that all your dependencies are preserving backwards compatibility. Usually it goes something like this, inconsequential dependency has a security vulnerability that needs updated, that requires two other dependencies to be updated, the third one is pretty hacky and has a latent bug. Software is updated, but over the next month three more hotfixes are needed to address the bugs by the bad dependency. Thus the software lifecycle continues on. Btw, I thought this article related to this was really interesting: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/darpa-working-on-...