This seems a lot like “shut-up and multiply” at the meta-level.
Also borrowing from start-up culture, there is a closely related concept to what you describe called de-risking. Importantly that is in terms of financial risk rather than utility risk, but if we are talking about hardware the two should track pretty closely; I would be very surprised if you found a reliable and scalable bridge design which somehow did not improve the returns on investment. The biggest difference I see between them is that utility-risk space is not under the same time pressures as finance-risk space.
This seems a lot like “shut-up and multiply” at the meta-level.
Also borrowing from start-up culture, there is a closely related concept to what you describe called de-risking. Importantly that is in terms of financial risk rather than utility risk, but if we are talking about hardware the two should track pretty closely; I would be very surprised if you found a reliable and scalable bridge design which somehow did not improve the returns on investment. The biggest difference I see between them is that utility-risk space is not under the same time pressures as finance-risk space.