alt Hacker NewsThere have been so many catastrophic accidents along human history despite all its advancements, I don't find this particularly implausible. Also across sci-fi, the stranded in space or on a distant world is a common trope without your criticism broadly applied either.
I mean, I don't know. All I'm saying is that if someone can solve interstellar travel then they can probably land without crashing.
On Earth, (this is pulled up from Gemini) The global all-accident rate is 1.32 accidents per million flights. This equates to roughly a 1 in 759,646 chance of a flight experiencing any kind of accident (both major and minor).
We have a super low probability of crashing and yet we haven't solved interstellar travel.
Nobody is perfect, sure. But I'd wager that figuring out how to traverse light years only to crash is most likely bullshit.