They aren't ignorant of the danger. How many IT stories have we all seen where the management and CEO levels are told about the best practices and needed tech and investments to avoid problems, and once the costs are mentioned... "well, we'll have to table that for now..." No excuse for these big companies at all.

Public entities have their own steps where it gets shelved, but it's the same idea. Risk management, and maybe make a dime now if we can push it to later (or never). Exactly how things like Fukushima happened.

Meanwhile we have other organizations who don't get near enough funding for what they do, and yet they turn no money and problems into long range successes. NASA/JPL is always my go-to for that. Btw, Voyager 1 is approaching its one light-day mark on Nov. 18th. Still working to some degree, still doing science.