The operating system has historically trusted the applications not to do dumb things too much.

Only now we're witnessing the consequences much more frequently thanks to accelerated slop.

> The operating system has historically trusted the applications not to do dumb things too much.

The OS is a thin layer providing an abstract and consistent interface regardless of the hardware configuration. Policing applications is mostly related to security and resources utilization, not moronic errors.

> The OS is a thin layer providing an abstract and consistent interface regardless of the hardware configuration.

This is called a hardware abstraction layer, not OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_abstraction