[SkyBelow]

"Security at the expense of usability, comes at the expense of security." strikes once again (if you squint and see usability to include following the path of least resistance, which I think counts).

Good security is expensive. Bad security is cheap (be it the example you mentions or a multitude of other ways). Management will favor the bad security done cheaply because the cost of bad security is extremely rare, and when it does happen, it rarely falls on the managers head. Either no one gets blamed (general blame the company, if at all these days), or the developer who made the choice to go with the cheap option gets blamed.