In my case, it's mostly for performance reasons that they are left out in release builds. I work in extremely performance sensitive fintech, where the cost of a

In my case, it's mostly for performance reasons that they are left out in release builds. I work in extremely performance sensitive fintech, where the cost of a couple hundred if statements in a critical code path is a big deal. We have signal handlers and all that so the user still gets a core dump whenever the program crashes, it just takes more digging to find exactly where the bug is vs where it manifests.