The guidelines for safe aviation have way lower Kolmogorov complexity than the guidelines for safe “everything that software can do”-iation. It’s actually close to a subset when you think about it.
Well ideally it would end when we know what the fuck we are doing.. the number of bugs I find in all sorts of software (with Apple being one of the worst offenders) is frankly embarrassing and a pox mark of the entire industry.
If planes were as reliable as software they would be the leading cause of death in the world.
The first commercial aviation company was formed in 1909 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline#History), the FAA was founded in 1958 and the NTSB in 1967....
At some point the "we're in our infancy" stage has to end.