A valid perspective, although I'm not going to lie: I don't particularly appreciate the extra (non-value-adding) work that's been dumped into my team's backlog in terms of figuring out and implementing mitigations, ahead of applying patches, when we already have a dozen projects on the go, with about half of them scheduled to deliver in the next couple of months. _Thankfully_ we're running non-virtualised on dedicated hardware, due to performance and cost considerations, so the risks are somewhat reduced for us.

I also admit to taking a fairly dim view of Intel's PR around the issues, and the suspicion that Meltdown, in particular, exists because they - specifically - have played it a bit fast and loose with their processor designs in order to gain a performance edge, and perhaps to a greater extent than AMD and ARM.

Granted, this will take years for a final resolution in hardware though.