Seeing running software as an asset is the right approach. But the costs of executing and even re-doing things went significantly down. The costs that didn't

Seeing running software as an asset is the right approach. But the costs of executing and even re-doing things went significantly down. The costs that didn't went down are the ones of breaking the chain of trust to a predictable outcome. A specific version of some running software accumulated trust. If you rewrite it from scratch that capital is reset on release.