We’ve found that the common cause is a tsunami of money granted by the Obama administration. Contractors received $150-500 million for each web site that really needed only $10-20 million to develop. With all the money available to them, spending the money became the objective. Thousands of programmers were hired, most of whom apparently were completely incompetent. As each web site disaster unfolded, corruption and fraud to the point of criminality took over.
http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.hcgov150823.htm
So what ? Did any of the criminal frauds go to prison ?
You may have hit the nail on the head. The regulations and young developers are all focused on websites. There is no attention or understanding of the databases and backend processing needed support the websites.
It is GIGO. But they are obsessed with pretty VISUALIZATION of the Garbage.
Republican Congresses appropriated that money after 2010 .... in addition to the Democrat Congresses of 2007-2010.