State of the art technology always involves a certain amount of risk. Think of WW1 airplanes. As primitive as they seem now, they were the best in the world at the time, and were extremely dangerous to fly, just because the technology was new and untried.
“Think of WW1 airplanes. As primitive as they seem now, they were the best in the world at the time, and were extremely dangerous to fly, just because the technology was new and untried.”
Actually you are only half correct. They were in part dangerous to fly because the fighters were trying for maximum maneuverability (close to the unstable regime), something we handle now with fly-by-wire.