[whiplash451]

My guess is that in such low memory regimes, program length is very loosely correlated with bug rate.

If anything, if you try to cram a ton of complexity into a few kb of memory, the likelihood of introducing bugs becomes very high.

[pooloo]

Yet here we are compounding the issues by adding more and more layers to these systems... The higher the level it becomes the more security risks we take.

[SoftTalker]

Well you don't have room for a lot of "defensive" code. You write the program to function on expected inputs, and hope that all the "shouldn't happen" scenarios actually don't happen.