Comment by jcgrillo

I don't think fines are enough of an incentive. They're too easy to evade and insufficiently consequential to the people who are actually shipping code. Moreover, making them enormous (as you put it well "valuation-cratering") unfairly punishes people who are not directly responsible for the failure. Instead, like in other engineering disciplines, Engineers need to be personally liable for the consequences of failure. Not necessarily every engineer--not every mechanical engineer needs to be a P.E.--but someone directly responsible for the quality of the work needs to stake their reputation on it, and suffer the consequences when it fails.