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If you read the article carefully -- I've dealt with an alternative scenario as well -- where we may have smaller codebases with larger blast radius.

As to disposable software, it's harder to get traction/adaption when things constantly break or are slow or the experience is crappy in general.

To make it simpler - all else being equal - as a user would you prefer using highly reviewed/vetted/reliable software, or otherwise?

My bet is reliability is an invariant -- nobody wishes for software that crashes, leaks your private info, gives faulty output, is laggy to use and so on.