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There's a concept of acceptable levels of risk. Companies are not going to shut down out of fear, or miss out on the business opportunities of online presence. There's money to be made.
Even with things as serious as spectre allowing full dumping of CPU and RAM contents simply by loading a website, I can't think of a single company that just said "well shit, better just die".
Serious, potentially business ending, security issues usually have a huge amount of effort when discovered put into mitigations and fixes. Mitigations are usually enough in the immediate "oh shit" phase. Defense in depth is standard practice.