[readenough]

My personal view, as an industrial control systems engineer, is that so much of the world's production software requires teams of software professionals to monitor it and keep it working. When these same software professionals look at systems which physically interact with the real world on a real time basis then a different dynamic comes into play.

[varjag]

There's certainly that. Noone cares about that hot stack when your distributed system needs to work 24/7/365 for a couple decades with 0 SREs.