[slezakattack]

Yes, I've seen this as well and from my observation, it seems to boil down to company culture and a lack of product direction. A company that refuses to accept that errors and faults happen tends to permeate into the code. A lot of people that work on the product side will say "I want us to have no failures" without understanding that things simply WILL fail at times and we need to understand what the user experience should be if this were to happen. This is especially true of external services that you have no control over (i.e. the usage of a push notification system).