Those are not even remotely equivalent costs.

It's incredible how little understanding the average person has about plumbing, heating, and electricity.

> Allowing anyone to build and host a public app without a basic understanding of these things is like letting people fly a passenger plane without a license

Is it now? How many hundreds of people have died as a result? How much infrastructure was destroyed?

I get the point you're trying to make, but computer security as a field has already a big problem with maximalist mindset, and it doesn't help in keeping systems of consequence actually secure and people safe from danger.

careful what you wish for. do you want outlaw teenagers of playing with computers until they get government issued web license?