You'll get no argument from me. That RAII exists at all is the best evidence ever ( even though I've used a variation on RAII in assembly in the past ).
The interesting question is - are there actually fewer defects, objectively, or are they simply rendered .. something like latent?
One I fixed in... April - if the file system on an SD card was scrogged, writing to the file system crashes the box. So I moved the write of a configuration file from the event of a switch change ( because if the switch was never put in that position, then there was no reason to ever do that ) to the top of the program so it'd crash when you powered up.
It helps me personally to think that defects are just something I've chosen to do despite my best effort. Keeps me on my toes. I certainly understand people being fatigued by that.
