My guess is that the market for high quality software engineering simply isn't there at scale. A lot of what we use day to day really just scrapes by the thres

My guess is that the market for high quality software engineering simply isn't there at scale. A lot of what we use day to day really just scrapes by the threshold of passable. So that's the bar they need to clear. If your customers are content paying you for 80% reliability, why pay for engineers who can deliver 5 9s?