It is a fictional visualization of a real thing where complex systems often have functionality that fails if something isn’t included even if it isn’t used.

For example, if a game had a process for verifying the game assets were not altered by the user then removing those assets could break the check due to them not existing instead of just being altered if it wasn’t written to handle the absence of the asset.

Fake but plausible and conveys the intended message to non-technical people.