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The flexibility is how software engineers are forced to forget the engineering part, so it does matter.

Updates are fine. Forgetting quality because of the possibility of updating is not.

Depends how you use that flexibility. If it’s to add capabilities and fix minor problems that all products have, sure. If it’s to ship bug-ridden crap just because it can probably be fixed later, I’m less of a fan.

Theoretically, it could have been an advantage, but in practice it's not. What we got instead is a software ecosystem of slow, bug infested garbage that requires constant updates.