MOTM

>Being a professional embedded systems and app engineer for 18+ years and a
>hobbyist programmer long before that, I will say that this is a completely
>true statement.

and having been in software development for a similar number of 
years, my opinion is that commercial "priorities", scheduling 
"decisions", and cost-cutting on various essential factors (such as 
QA) have a far greater influence on the quality of software in 
general than the IQ of the programmers concerned!