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> what we need is hardware that doesn't need to have its software updated constantly.

That's just not possible if you value security at all.

It is indeed not possible if we keep making software the same way. But it doesn't have to be.

It's simply not possible to make bug-free software that's supposed to interact with the internet.

And even if it did, it would take so long to develop that it would never get released before it was already too old to be useful.

This is because you are still assuming software being developed the same way. Could you give me an example of potential risk that is absolutely impossible to solve no matter how we change the entire computing process (from users running the app, to the app developer, and to the os developers)

I am not suggesting anything that would increase development time, in fact it is the opposite. Having to explicitly support multiple platforms is hell for both developers AND users

Cryptographic functions for example. Today they might be cutting edge, but tomorrow someone might have found a critical exploit or the hardware has just become too powerful.

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