I'm wary to using analogies of smaller team dynamics for wider systems. Markets have a disconnected impersonal nature where things have a way of shaking out.
Most of those programming management memes come from big companies with giant teams that don't live or die on output, many of them are shielded from that sort of thing because of cash cows like Microsoft/Google or corporate megadeals like IBM/Oracle. So there's never any shake ups until it's long been obvious to the customers.
I'm not using an analogy of smaller team dynamics. One can talk about software bugs in general and the general incentives to fix them just as one can talk about the economy in general and the general incentives for people to make money.
I'm also not referencing any programming management memes.
I think maybe you're seeing a cynicism in my comment that's not there. I don't think that bugs exists because of dumb managers. I think they exist because it's very difficult to write code without any bugs, even when there are very strong incentives to do so. That's partly just because it's inherently difficult, and partly because there are also other incentives pulling in different directions.
Most of those programming management memes come from big companies with giant teams that don't live or die on output, many of them are shielded from that sort of thing because of cash cows like Microsoft/Google or corporate megadeals like IBM/Oracle. So there's never any shake ups until it's long been obvious to the customers.