Vibe check: is software getting worse? Or does it just feel like it's getting worse because more things depend on software (which has always been bad), and my exposure to software-being-bad has simply increased?

This particular post is prompted by a notification that the door code system at my child's preschool is glitching out, letting some parents in but not others. But this has been on my mind for some time.

Another example: the amount of times I find myself rebooting something just to get it working again is on an upswing, after reaching a local minimum several years ago.