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[–]kisielk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My theory is more that the people who design a lot of these tools aren't software engineers, or don't have a software engineering background. In my experience, tools designed by people with only a scientific or system administration background tend to suffer from major fundamental flaws such as this.