[michaelmrose]

People have been conditioned by using badly designed software that systems naturally drift into broken states in the course of normal operations and that having to start the system from scratch regularly is therefore very reasonable.

This just isn't so. Also the degree of acceptable reliability that is reasonable is different in a missile defense system vs the toy your grandma uses to browse facebook.

It had to be rebooted because a bug caused it to be increasingly inaccurate the longer it was booted up. This was always broken. It wasn't an acceptable fix because you manifestly can't trust users to do so as shown by the 28 corpses. It was however probably the best that could be done on short notice.