[ryandrake]

In a 20+ year career so far, I've never seen a company break the mold. At best, the company will pay lip service to software quality, but reality is that everyone up the food chain is incentivized to run as fast as they can cramming features. At worst, quality will be deliberately shunned: "Get it to barely work to the point where the customer won't outright reject it, and then ship it!"

If there is any company out there that still encourages and rewards the craftsmanship and attention to quality/detail that is embodied in that old Steve Jobs quote[1] I haven't found that company yet.

1: “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”

[norir]

Yes, sadly the software industry isn't immune to our society level race to the bottom.

[neuralRiot]

I was going to point out that , sadly it’s not just software companies that are run like that. Honestly I wouldn’t know who to point the finger at, consumers crave “features”(be it software or hardware ones) because companies have been pushing them as the Nr1 selling point.