Comment by sph

Silly to think this is the fault of ops engineers. More likely, the project manager or C-suite didn't have time nor budget to allocate on disaster recovery.

The project shipped, it's done, they've already moved us onto the next task, no one wants to pay for maintenance anyway.

This has been my experience in 99% of the companies I have worked for in my career, while the engineers that built the bloody thing groan and are well-aware of all the failure modes of the system they've built. No one cares, until it breaks, and hopefully they get the chance to say "I **** told you this was inadequate"