The problem seems to be that a buggy, poorly-engineered piece of used food that’s ready in June will always outsell a reliable, easy to use and flexible system that won’t be ready until September. In fact, it will monopolise the market, so the second system never gets a look-in.
That in turn is replaced with an even more buggy system with more bells and whistles in December. And so it goes.

Or it does unless lives are at stake, and/or lawsuits likely unless engineering best practices are used.

The thing is, these engineering best practices have now been developed in aerospace in particular so that there’s no longer a time penalty till delivery. Unfortunately, the number of aerospace practioners is small, and the supply of MSCE’s far greater, so from a human resources viewpoint, it makes sense to continue with shoddy development. Instead of fault-tolerant systems, we have created fault-tolerant customers – even in the military now.