You want fewer bugs, have you tried cleaning?

Every Salesforce team believes the same thing: bugs get fixed by debugging.

Something breaks. A developer opens the Flow, traces the error, patches the logic, ships the fix. Bug closed. This is how we're trained to think about software problems, and it's true often enough that nobody questions it.

But open the actual bug tracker of any Org that's been live for more than three years, and a pattern shows up. The same kinds of failures, in different disguises, over and over. A Validation Rule blocking a valid edit. An old Flow still firing. A trigger failing on a Field that changed meaning years ago.

These aren't isolated defects. They're symptoms of the same root cause wearing different costumes: an Org that's accumulated years of changes without anyone removing what stopped being true. The old Flow version nobody deactivated. The Record Type that no longer matches how the team sells. The Field that got repurposed but never had its dependencies audited.

Debugging treats each of these as a new problem. It isn't. It's the same problem, again.

The teams with the fewest bugs aren't the ones with the best developers. They're the ones who treat their Org like a physical space that accumulates clutter and clean it on purpose, on a schedule, instead of waiting for the clutter to trip someone.

Debugging fixes what broke. Cleaning stops the next ten things from breaking the same way.