You are right in that the world would be a better place with more useful and actionable error messages.
But:
> How is it not obvious to the point of pain that you need to know WHY something failed, not only that it failed?
This is obvious to everyone, at least after encountering the first few errors. But that makes it the perfect thing to upsell, to milk your existing customers with a pricier plan. One instance is e.g. Microsoft selling access to their customers' logs to those same customers: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/20/under_cisa_spressures... (they backpedalled after it blew up spectacularly).
No, I don't like it. Yes, I hate those Ferengi. Changing how things are for the better not only requires recognizing the immediate problems but also why the problem is persisted, and who is to blame for it.
But:
> How is it not obvious to the point of pain that you need to know WHY something failed, not only that it failed?
This is obvious to everyone, at least after encountering the first few errors. But that makes it the perfect thing to upsell, to milk your existing customers with a pricier plan. One instance is e.g. Microsoft selling access to their customers' logs to those same customers: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/20/under_cisa_spressures... (they backpedalled after it blew up spectacularly).
No, I don't like it. Yes, I hate those Ferengi. Changing how things are for the better not only requires recognizing the immediate problems but also why the problem is persisted, and who is to blame for it.