True!
It's Risk. Humans are typically insanely bad at understanding risk, how to assess it, and how to mitigate it.
For most, if something is risky, it's just a black box, perhaps with some odds, and it's either feared or ignored (or both).
Few understand the critical difference between using knowledge, skill, technology, and planning to manage and mitigate risk, vs rolling the dice and getting away with it for a long time.
Using knowledge, skill, technology, and planning to manage and mitigate risk has gotten humans to great heights - we can make entire careers living in environments in which random behaviors will kill us in seconds (e.g., aerospace, underwater, large construction, metals refining, etc.).
But most people think much more naively, and even do so in professional environments unless required otherwise (and even sometimes where they are). So, they just think that if something isn't obviously a risk, or only happens occasionally, ignore it.
This is just rolling the dice. Even if you get away with it for a long time, that only makes you more falsely confident and therefore more vulnerable. From the last mild pandemic, there are over a million dead and close to half million suffering long disease from this attitude.
And you see it in your work - you simply point out an obvious very damaging failure mode, even just to document it, and you get a hostile reaction.
I'm not sure what to do about it. Perhaps rock climbing should be a required activity in school, learning to viscerally manage risk, and showing that it is usually actually easy to to?