I wrote a somewhat related article, after running just this Friday into two blocks of code that were deliberately causing invariant violations (akin to the "max < min" situation) to be ignored silently: https://alejo.ch/3gk - Fail loudly: a plea to stop hiding bugs

I think of this as fail fast. Fail immediately so its easy to root cause the failure and not have it be hidden and cause more obscure side effects later.