[Sharlin]

The impact, whether economic or QoL or whatever metric you prefer to use, of a million frustrated people and the corresponding loss of productivity may not be insignificant.

And, obviously, software is in charge of actual security in the real world, and the track record there is not exactly flattering! Safety as well, of course, but luckily safety-critical software is a much smaller and usually more rigorous subfield, quite unlike the case with security.