I think it was either Bjarne Stroustrup, Scott Meyers, or Herb Sutter who said that if we "went slower" (took less risks / program more like embedded / NASA / JAXA / ESA), we would still be living in the computing stone age. The real trick is to take calculated risks given your business environment and constraints. Usually, on any given team, there is one person who thinks they are "flying to the moon" with their accounting software (or whatever). And their pace is ridiculously slow, and code vastly over-designed and tested. They are always planning for once in 10,000 years events.