It should be considered that, in a market where supply is limited, the economics of scaling housing development are also limited, such that the associated costs of building go up. Fewer opportunities to build means fewer materials suppliers, fewer labourers, etc. which can mean price gouging when demand is bursting.
Zoning restrictions and building code are the primary causes from which (virtually) all systemic issues originate.
They are also the easiest to fix, and can be rewritten overnight if needed. We just don't see enough outrage yet, but I believe the pitchforks are coming for city councillors across Canada and the US.
There is also a kind of hype of homesteading. But you should not underestimate the huge amount of work it takes to keep yourself alive. So for most that is not an option.
I'm not saying it's amateur-ish to have bugs. I'm saying, if this was developed by a highly competent state-sponsored organization, you'd think they would have developed the actual exploit and tested it heavily behind closed doors, fixing all of the bugs and ensuring there were no suspicion-creating performance regressions before any of it was submitted into a public project. If there was no performance regression, much higher chance this never would have been discovered at all.