Not sure how well it fits reality, but it’s also to a large extend how dramatic can be the result of a fault of your system. If it’s embedded in a coffee machi

Not sure how well it fits reality, but it’s also to a large extend how dramatic can be the result of a fault of your system. If it’s embedded in a coffee machine, maybe all cost-effective taken into account it’s ok to have an over-bloated software stack maintained by the cheapest folk the manager could found. Now if you are working on embedded software for some vehicle like a critical part of a car, a train or a spaceship, considerations of safety for both ethic and legal reasons might lead to different tradeoffs and conclusions.