Not really, because the only people that benefited from VW were Vw managers, whereas as a user I am quite happy to trade off speed for not validating useless fi

Not really, because the only people that benefited from VW were Vw managers, whereas as a user I am quite happy to trade off speed for not validating useless fields when processing terabytes of JSON. And he is quite open about the tradeoff, so it's a perfect analogy except for what's different!