Should liability doctrine be changed for software?

At the risk of asking the AMA whether malpractice doctrine should be broadened and strengthened, is some core software at a stage of maturity that negligence or even strict liability should apply? Twenty years I asked senior developers and they said that all new feature development would stop. (I can think of cases where that would have been a good thing.) But economic theory of law suggests that liability should rest with the party who can address an issue most efficiently, most cheaply. That is almost always the developer. What think ye?