> Some people are going to get burnt, probably quite bad
It's all lighthearted hypotheticals until someone you love or you yourself in a moment of inattention make a catastrophic mistake.
In theory, we don't need guardrails on roads. Just stay on the fucking road and if you swerve off it, you'll get a lesson in why that's a bad idea.
In practice, we are primates whose cognitive systems are made of squishy grey goop and we make mistakes all the time. Building systems that turn predictable mistakes into catastrophic consequences is what we used to call "poor engineering".
I don't think you are wrong, I do want guardrails and personally try to ensure that there are those guardrails before driving. However, it seems that a lot of people cannot wait for them and just want to go out and drive, fast, even if everything points towards the fact that that's not a good idea. If someone really wants to touch the fire after everyone stated multiple times that they shouldn't do it, I guess it's ok to let them go fo it.