I don't see how this applies. Some shell has to be the default one, and all systems don't pick the same one even. Most systems don't install a compiler by default. Thank you for making my point?
Visa makes billions per year off of nothing but collecting a mere 2%-3% tax on everything else.
The whole point of an analogy is to expose a blind spot by showing the same thing in some other context where it is recognized or percieved differently.
CPUs spends cycles for features (doing useful work). Enabling frame pointers skims off a percentage of the cycles. But it's the impact on useful work that matters, not how many cycles you lose. The cycles are just a means to an end. So x% of cycles is fundamentally incomparable to x% of money.