alt Hacker NewsNo, because that would indicate there should be some sort of regulatory standard for what does/does not constitute "lazy engineering". Creating this standard in turn creates regulatory/compliance overhead for every software engineering organization. This in turn slows everything right down and destroys the startup ethos. "Move fast and break things" is a thing for a reason. The whole point of the free market is to avoid this kind of burdensome regulation at all costs.
If customers want to buy "lazily-engineered" products, from where do you derive the authority to tell them they can't?
If airplanes used this logic, likely at least hundreds more would have died over the last decades. Accident rates are even going up, because of logic like yours. Yeah planes are fine most of the time, when the long tail involves safety concerns (that wouldn’t have otherwise happened) making money on people using your product becomes unethical without mutually agreed upon safety regulation, ideally motivated by voters instead of special interest groups