Hm, that's idealistic...

I've certainly run into cases where small changes in general systems led to hard-to-detect bugs, which took a great deal of investigation to figure out. Not all failures are catastrophic.

The technology is quite alive, which is why it hasn't been 'fixed' - changing the wheels on a moving car, and all that. The actual disappointment is that a better alternative hasn't taken off in the six years since this post was written... If its so easy, where's the alternatives?