So the idea is to force yourself to make completely unnecessary and "potentially inconvenient trade-offs"? A wise developer should use an appropriate level of r

So the idea is to force yourself to make completely unnecessary and "potentially inconvenient trade-offs"? A wise developer should use an appropriate level of robustness without tying one hand behind his own back. And when something unexpected goes wrong anyway it's going to be great when a problem that might've taken an hour to diagnose instead takes two weeks, because SSH is a crutch.