They have been able to "so far". This isn't to say that we shouldn't learn from them how to push the failure date as far into the future as you can. I just don't think you can truly make something incorruptible.
incorruptible does not mean immortal, fwiw
I appreciate you engaging with the argument in good faith and I look forward to hearing what you think of the book if you do decide to read it.
That's where competition and creative destruction comes to play.
It’s perhaps idealistic, but maybe we’ll figure out a way to limit the blast radius of any failures by driving a culture that rewards those that push out the future date as you say