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All you say are plausible scenarios. But there is also another one: the developers were simply not very good at writing code - neither diligent, thorough, or aware of good practices. Or they simply didn't care about the bugs or errors even if they knew about them. They never had to suffer the consequences.

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The developers in question probably don't even work for Fujitsu. They probably work outside the UK, in the software equivalent of a sweatshop, and spend most of their time copy-pasting from Stack Overflow and writing the kind of incoherent GitHub issue comments that every maintainer of a high-profile OSS project has to deal with these days. They provide the single-digit-dollars-per-hour code output, and Fujitsu makes sure the requirements are vague enough that they can meet them with the resulting dumpster fire, and this is the result.

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