i dont think doctors fail as often as software projects. and they only fail on the fringes of medicine - like treating cancer, or rare diseases. You don't often see doctors failing to treat the cold or a broken angle badly that they kill their patients!

But in the software world, it seems the equivalent of the cold is a CRUD app, but still fails so often that it's newsworthily talked about when such a software project succeed!

No, that's not equivalent. A doctor treats a cold the same in every case. Software engineers are building different systems for each case, or else they would just use existing software.

Part of that is because software development is usually concerned with optimizing things for their sale value, not for being useful. In my example, a lot of problems could easily be solved with the same CRUD stack, if not for the needs concerning the design (i.e. it can't look similar to that competitor's thing) and other goals unrelated to actual use of the product.

A doctor doesn't really treat a cold though. They can treat an infection with anti biotics, they can treat something more specific than a cold with something. But if you come in with just a typical cold and say "treat me," they'll give you a placebo and prescribe lots of rest and water.