We built that big cement dam decades and decades ago. We've learned so much about engineering and risk assessment since then. It makes sense that we might need

We built that big cement dam decades and decades ago. We've learned so much about engineering and risk assessment since then. It makes sense that we might need to do a little debugging and refactoring now and then. It's pretty reasonable to drill a few small holes in the dam, and to defer maintenance in favor of more urgent priorities. Dogmatic commitment to the old no-hole-drilling and take-maintenance-seriously dialogues of the past is just a quaint antiquarian tradition.