Compromising for speed and ignoring reliability and security concerns. I'd say it's human nature just like in many situations most people have a hard time being

Compromising for speed and ignoring reliability and security concerns. I'd say it's human nature just like in many situations most people have a hard time being patient. Time and again the better but less fancy or less performant solution have been dismissed. Without the likes of i960 or BS-5000 (or lowRISC), safe code will invariably incur some slowdown like, say, bounds checks or GC overhead. Even with Rust we're trying to elide bounds checks, for good reason of course, so performance is important. But, the priorities are wrong because we tend to favor spending cycles on fancy aesthetics rather than harder to exploit code. To give an absurd example: what good is a fancy looking/feeling ATM if every third transaction gets siphoned to another continent? Back when this transition happened in NT4, it actually led to many crashes which weren't there in the microkernel'ish design of the feature in NT 3.51. I'm hopeful we'll return to Microkernel systems where couple with a capability system the damage an attacker can cause will be substantially smaller.