a sign of poor engineering
Reality, I'm afraid. The problem lies not with what is published in operational documents but with innovative bush lawyer (engineer ?) pilots with less than the full story.
There is a whole section of computer resets in the QRH
No problems with that .. the research has been done and, barring mistakes (which can and do occur in a design office the same as anywhere else), the crew can have confidence that the procedure will do what is advertised.
A whole universe away from a pilot's making it up on the fly ...