I would generally pass this comment by, but it's just so distastefully hostile because you totally missed the point.
GP's comment was expressing sardonic disbelief that a modern jet wouldn't be able to receive remote software updates, considering it's so ubiquitous and reliable in other fields, even those with much, much lower costs. Not that developers don't release faults.
People tend to opine on systems engineering as if we had some sort of information superconductor connecting all minds involved.
Systems are Hard and complex systems are Harder. Thinking of entire class of failures as 'solved' is kinda like talking about curing cancer. There isn't one thing called cancer, there's hundreds.
There's no way to solve complex systems problems for good. Reality, technologies, tooling, people, language, everything changes all the time. And complex systems failure modes that happen today will happen forever.
Ahh, then I did misread it entirely. Thanks for stopping by to call me out.
It's still probably not a matter of capability... I wouldn't be so cavalier about software updates on my phone if it was holding me thousands of feet above the ground at the time.
I already commented on this elsewhere but I came across a company that did OTA updates on a control box in vehicles without checking if the vehicle was in motion or not. And it didn't even really surprise me, it was just one of those things that came up when prepping for that job from a risk assessment. They never even thought of it.
GP's comment was expressing sardonic disbelief that a modern jet wouldn't be able to receive remote software updates, considering it's so ubiquitous and reliable in other fields, even those with much, much lower costs. Not that developers don't release faults.