I don't see many people criticising here quite frankly. As per your comment, you are right: if there is a kernel bug and you'd rather restart your computer to

I don't see many people criticising here quite frankly. As per your comment, you are right: if there is a kernel bug and you'd rather restart your computer to quickly get back to what you were doing and avoid distraction, all good. If you are part of a kernel engineering team and you quickly restart your computer and pretend it never happened then maybe you didn't give your best shot.