Security is largely not a balance between usability and safety at the levels most companies operate at. Both usability and safety could have been achieved in th

Security is largely not a balance between usability and safety at the levels most companies operate at. Both usability and safety could have been achieved in this case by just not being vulnerable to the attack as was the case for many other browsers. Then you could click the link and still be safe without any usability tradeoff in this specific case. Obviously, there are ways to sacrifice usability to gain security, but it is by no means required or sufficient to do so. There are plenty of ways to completely demolish usability without gaining any safety. And even in cases where it is necessary to tradeoff, most problems are so far from the actual edge of what is possible that you only need to sacrifice a negligible amount of usability to gain order of magnitude improvements in safety if you are working with someone who knows what they are doing.