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Anyone else remember a few years ago when companies got rid of all their QA people because something something functional testing? Yeah.
The uncontrolled growth in abstractions is also very real and very damaging, and now that companies are addicted to the pace of feature delivery this whole slipshod situation has made normal they can’t give it up.
That was M$, not an industry thing.
Article describing it.
It was not just MS. There were those who followed that lead and announced that it was an industry thing.
I must have missed that one