Precautionary Principle is always about blast radius times probability. Condensing the state reduces the odds that the bit flip will be in your critical memory but increases the damage when it does. That tends to be a proportional amount so if it’s not a lateral move it’s at least a serpentine one.
For this to be true, I think you would have to assume an "additive" model where each time corrupt memory is accessed it does some small amount of additional "damage". But for memory holding CPU instructions, I think it's more likely that the first time a corrupt byte is read, the program crashes.
