Maybe a recency bias. I have used computers since I was a kid, my earliest memories are Windows 95 but I am sure there was some before then too. I remember constant BSOD, constant application-crashing bugs with vague error messages, no ability to Google the solution to the problems you do have. Sometimes a game wouldn&#x27;t work and there was really nothing you could do to even troubleshoot.<p>I doubt we&#x27;re getting worse. At worst, we&#x27;re staying even as complexity grows tremendously. I would guess we&#x27;re probably improving slightly despite insane growth in complexity.<p>I would say that with great size, like Google and Microsoft, comes a greater difficulty in making bug-free products. Too small and you don&#x27;t have the funding, but the sweet size is probably somewhere between a &quot;small business&quot; and &quot;Google&quot;. Companies the size of Google have a lot of bureaucracy. They have a million products. They have thousands of developers. And in the end, the majority of the business doesn&#x27;t even come from these glitchy products. It&#x27;s understandable that noone is really up in arms over these bugs because upper management doesn&#x27;t give a shit, and the developers only give a shit in so far that they aren&#x27;t fired. Sometimes you&#x27;ll have developers who care because of pride in their work, but they&#x27;re the minority.