Which still is by all means a externalized watchdog, which in addition is deactivated, if its not properly implemented and still working. So the philosophy itself is brokken by the programers and the users are used as sensor to find out wether the program executed properly.

A proper implementation would be, that windows for example during the installation could "starve" the process in a API or somewhere else into a internal timeout and expect that error to come up, to proof worthiness.