What do you mean turning off the fuel for the engines crashes the plane? I thought you said this was a safe airplane?!

Things like this - they're painting users of programming languages as the ones being unreasonable.

I imagine they're talking about their defaults. One can commonly reconfigure how different build profiles work.

From the article:

We don’t want published packages to (a) lie to the type and effect system, or (b) contain print debugging statements > As a result, using dprintln in production mode causes a compilation error.

There is no documentation about the existence of build profiles or how they might work. I think you're reading too charitably.