> Commercial/enterprise software has always been this way

All software is this way. The only way something gets fixed is if someone decides it's a priority to fix it over all the other things they could be doing. Plenty of open source project have tons of issues. In both commercial and open source software they don't get fixed because the stack of things to do is larger than the amount of time there is to do them.

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IcyWindows 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's worth pointing it that the "priority" in both open source and closed isn't just "business priority".

Things that are easy, fun, or "cool" are done before other things no matter what kind of software it is.

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tylerflick 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

All hardware eventually fails, all software eventually works.

	▲	taikahessu 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting take. Also interesting would be to compare the qualities between them. From my experience software has much much bigger probability of ending as eventually working, but not fixing the problem it was set out to do in the first place aka "building the right thing vs building it right". Which I guess is somewhat related to OP's dilemma.