I don't disagree, but why do we do we react this way? Doesn't knowing the emperor has no clothes instill a bit of hope that things can change? I feel for the people who were impacted by this, but I'm also a little bit excited. Like... NOW can we fix it? Please?
The higher up in large organizations you go, in politics or employment or w/e, the more what matters is not facts, but avoiding being visibly seen to have made a mistake, so you become risk-averse, and just ride the status quo unless it's an existential threat to you or something you can capitalize on for someone else's misjudgment.
So if you can't directly gain from pointing out the emperor's missing clothes, there's no incentive to call it out, there's active risk to calling it out if other people won't agree, and moreover, this provides an active incentive for those with political capital in the organization to suppress the embarrassment of anyone pointing out they did not admit the problem everyone knew was there.
(This is basically how you get the "actively suppress any exceptions to people collectively treating something as a missing stair" behaviors.)
But often, at least in my experience, exceptions are limited in scope to whatever part of the org chart the person who is the exception is in charge of, and then that still governs everything outside of that box...
(Look all the recent, severe supply chain attacks by state actors, and how soon they have been displaced off-focus ...)
I mean, it already is to some people, as shown elsewhere in this thread. Seems like it's the wrong people though.
Having another I-told-you-so isn't so bad, though - it does give us IT people a little more latitude when we tell people that buying the insecurity fix du jour increases work and adds more problems than it addresses.
I'd just like it to be soon because I'm interested in building such systems and I'd rather be paid to do so instead of doing it on my off time.
Gonna make me a Tshirt outta this :)
Because doing three requires convincing a bunch of people that are currently doing number two, to do number one instead.