Treating them like kings was our mistake in the first place. Give it another year, we're going to see a lot more blunders.

Both things true but not actually the same.

Or would you be fine with a deterministic king?

I’m honestly fascinated by how our profession is simultaneously having something of a crisis over all these arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities that keep getting found, and totally hype about explicitly granting the ability to execute arbitrary code and commands on our developer workstations over to an opaque third party service running on servers operated by companies that are now known to be unbelievably lax about cybersecurity.