A lot of that’s because there’s a finite number of ways to shape a car that is aerodynamic, fits people, and has efficient collision behavior.

People like interesting shapes until they find out it’s less safe, uncomfortable, more expensive and loud.

Not always. It’s better to say that “military grade” means “very specific standards”.
That also happens to translate to cheap pretty often, but that’s because someone in 1943 wrote the specification for The Standard Tube Sock and ordered 7,500,000,000 pairs to be delivered over the next century. Since it’s precisely specified you know exactly how much you can skimp.
Add that to the trillion pages of compatability requirements and you’re basically never updating anything.
Like how switching lightbulb brands at a nuclear power plant is hard because you need documentation demonstrating that the plastic in the led won’t become a hazard in a radioactive incident.

In my experience that’s only been the case for functionally non-unique software.

At my job we write software that’s effectively unique. There isn’t a pattern to fall back on.
It makes a lot more mistakes very frequently, since the nature of it keeps trying to guide it to the known path. It’s great for debugging since the manner that some check failed is chasing through known logic, and it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t see the existing code as probable or fitting a known pattern if the shape of a switch statement is still the same.

In my personal projects I’ve even run into issues getting it to do stuff like vulkan synchronization barriers in a way that doesn’t continuously devolve into what you see in tutorials, with an ultimately unstructured pile of adhoc resource allocation and barriers.

Crocodile Dundee

It’s suddenly a movie about a weirdly elitist Australian talking down to a bunch of Australian expats.

Are you telling me you can’t burn DVDs?
How do you think they even make DVDs? Do you think each one is unique or something?

What good is copy protection if all you need to do is hook a tape recorder up to the DVD player?

The system is stupid and ultimately futile. Is it really shocking that such a system produced a weirdly easy to bypass copy protection?

It’s not an impervious technical hurdle, it’s a legal protection. You can legally do it by using software that has the license to do the decryption.

What? That’s not true at all. You can just burn the iso to disc or use software that’s paid the license fee.

It’s stupid bullshit but perfectly possible.