TBH, a large corporation that claims these basic measures (auditing their data for bias, ensuring their systems are secure against obvious attacks, and documenting their design) is too much of a burden is admitting that their existing practices are ethically questionable or technically negligent.
Aha! Now you are getting to the tradeoff here. I can take anything and turn it into a number, but the number of possible sentences in the universe have to be greater than the number I can generate in a program right?
Yet, with recent releases, many of us have started to feel a sense of disappointment. The jumps in performance that once felt monumental have become incremental. It's a feeling that we have reached a plateau, and the smooth road has turned into a long, flat stretch of highway.