Comment by instig007

> Ignoring it costs more later, but later is someone else's problem.

and then the blame could be shifted to the future generations, it's their incompetence after all.

> Correctness wins when the cost of ignoring it becomes impossible to miss: an outage, a customer complaint, data loss. Until then, comfort wins every time.

Those who tolerate comfort-winning aren't engineers and shouldn't be admitted to stand close to engineering systems overall, especially outside the software industry.