> Considering the amount of money at stake, Software is a deeply, deeply unserious and careless industry, and a great many practitioners are also deeply unserious and careless people.

What else do you expect, given the economic incentives on one side, and the immaturity of the discipline on the other? Writing robust software requires time, money and competence, in a purely empirical approach, since we have no fundamental theory of software. The pressure is for quantity and features in minimum time. The approaches are incompatible, and economics win every time.