Without going to talk about legacy system, the bright minds who devised this probably doesn't know anything about certificate rotation in the pleteora of enterprise software around. Automate certificate renewal in stuff like Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. Or appliances with custom web interface. What a stupid decision.
Dune2 created the RTS genre. It was followed by Warcraft, Red Alert and then Starcraft.
UFO Enemy Unknown created the turn-based fighting aliens theme.
Probably lost also couple of years of my youth on them, but that's just bonus points
It's always the fault of somebody else.
We European and the rest of the world watched for weeks, or better months, the pandemic shutdown in Wuhan. And our countries did nothing. At most, flights to Wuhan were banned. For the rest we were all thinking "This is not our problem".
So the fault is ours, and of our governments.
But it's easy political game to blame someone else for that.