A big problem is that many of us that used to be on the Algol/Pascal camp had this utopic idea that engineers care for quality and would choose tools that provide such support.

Wirth has a nice paper where he writes about the error of not doing any PR and thinking "build and they will come" would just work.

https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/Modula-Obero...

Check the "Conclusions and Reflections" chapter.