[myme]

OP here. This is one of the exact things that, in my mind, makes programming hard. It probably wasn't covered in the post, but striking the right balance between "bug free" and "pragmatism" towards accepting lack of functionality and error tolerance, is crucial.

Within certain domains like healh-care (my area these days), space travel, military, edge case management play a significant role in the valuation of where to place your effort (although it doesn't exclude the ability to fail fast and hard during development cycles). In other domains exposing users for these hard failures is considered perfectly fine. It depends...

It's just one other aspect - when thinking beyond just the code - that makes the decisions and consideration I have to make every day "hard".