[weff]

That's a shitty excuse to reboot; sounds more like they didn't want to bother. If you do your job properly, errors can be handled. If you do your job properly, errors aren't simply hex values.

Maybe people were used to reboot their computers 7 years ago but these days, you can entirely work and reboot only for system patches.

[replax]

Yes, you are obviously right. They obviously didn't want to put up with error handling, as you can tell by the crappy error messages they implemented. Basically, they said "fck it, just reboot".