Is it the industry making this choice or the customer?

You could make a car that's safer than others at 10x the price but what would the demand look like at that price?

Would you pay 2x for your favourite software and forego some of the more complex features to get a version with half the security issues?

Thats very true and I think about often because even in everyday task e.g. "We need a new feature to download reports" then you get a ticket but still depending how much that is used, desired, invested in or marketed and all those things, how flexible should I make, whats all the errors, whats the data, how secure and million other small or bigger decisions.

The point isn't how user stories are written, but realizing that everything is a compromise for practicality since if I wanted it to be the most secure thing ever, Id say "Lets just not offer that feature at all".

But now back to cars, I like that I heard some companies promised or started to build cars again with real buttons. In our world its when I try to use more and support the tools which aren't build on Electron (and slow as hell) but actually care about performance. Open source and decent enough security is already the minimum requirement.

Sometimes I want VSCode and sometimes I want Notepad.

Well.. except that I never want either of those. So sometimes I want Kate editor and sometimes I want Akelpad.