xMillion dollars worth of electronics being fed information by a couple of holes in the side of an aircraft.
I know its not as simple as that but its a question of balance.
Takes me back to my days in industry when the time and motion engineer would measure operations to the nearest minute then produce costings to a thousanth of a penny! He didn't understand the problem but common sense......
It is actually quite serious because we now have a very good indication that something wrong with these 'holes' can totally disable a large aircraft and that 'something' can be a problem encountered regularly by all pilots i.e. ice.