[the8472]

A different framing would be things moving from a high-trust equilibrium to a low-trust one due to a few bad actors and no other way to stop their activities.

Security part reasonable code robustness, part Red Queen's race. Attackers expend ongoing effort for new exploits, defenders expend ongoing effort to get back into a secure place, everyone ending up where they started.

If world were a nicer place we wouldn't have to "fix that shortly".