This - 100%.
Just take a look at some of the opensource academic, infrastructure or "passion-projects", where there is no management pressures to "move fast & break-things" and ship-ship-ship. They tend to be very stable, very predictable - and very high quality.
Care to name any?
I've seen software that academics write. It's no better than average. It's often cut-and-paste code, or these days AI slop. Software is a means to an end in academia, rarely a product in itself.
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Anki
> They tend to be very stable, very predictable - and very high quality.
Some of them are, most are not.
Actually, most FOSS stuff is anything but stable or predictable. Instead it is constant treadmill, broken compatibility, and recently, thousand of commits from claude et al.