> And so if what you're craving is absolute precision and maximal avoidance of errors or incorrect behavior

If you are being paid to develop software, doing anything other than aiming for absolute correctness seems negligent, at best.

I think this is part of what leads to obsession with Rust. We build so many things on a daily basis with a long long list of 'it depends'. But Rust aims to make you write something as correctly as possible, and provides a really solid base for you to do this. So that list of 'it depends' shrinks drastically and you feel superhuman for building something so solid.