> would be viewed as dangerous, unprofessional or downright uneducated in any business meeting
Sounds like a great place to work.
> There's just too much can go badly wrong, for all the sunk cost in getting anything up and running.
Engineering is the art of compromise. In many cases the compromises would not be worth it, but that doesn't mean there are zero places where it would be, and eschewing the discussion out fear of how it would be perceived is the opposite of Engineering.
Sounds like a great place to work.
> There's just too much can go badly wrong, for all the sunk cost in getting anything up and running.
Engineering is the art of compromise. In many cases the compromises would not be worth it, but that doesn't mean there are zero places where it would be, and eschewing the discussion out fear of how it would be perceived is the opposite of Engineering.