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About houses, we watch one of the "Love it or List it" TV show variants. The way it's shown, very often, when the old house is being renovated, the renovators find something that's against code and has to be fixed. Or they find something damaged. And it's always shown how the owners are disappointed and angry. Why didn't they investigate and find it out in the first place when buying the house? Why didn't they do maintenance?

Then a new house is also shown, but we are only shown mainly interiors and views, never an iota about how the foundation or technology of the house works. That bit you the last time. And the owners want to get rid of the old house because it left a bad taste in their mouth by having these "surprises". Yet they waltz right into the next one with no concern whatsoever. (The shows also never talk about costs of living.... it's just the buying price of the house.)

These things all have direct analogies in the software world. It very often feels like a lot of people in the business are interior decorators and if I try to converse them as a structural expert - it just doesn't work.