Agreed! If your priorities are e.g. high reliability, it is a good idea to vet any potential software that you are planning to use, and maybe it will have to be

Agreed! If your priorities are e.g. high reliability, it is a good idea to vet any potential software that you are planning to use, and maybe it will have to be written from scratch if existing solutions are found to be outside of the expected specs. But even with such a product, you will have other pieces and parts: think about collecting metrics, marketing tools maybe, obscure internal admin UIs...selecting software for that probably does not need to be evaluated under the same extreme scrutiny as the "critical control software".