Some servers may have some security code written in MethodScript, which, if there was some misconfiguration or compile error, and the system couldn't start up properly, would rather keep the server shut down, rather that up without the protections. Therefore, expanding the halt-on-failure option to shut down the server if on startup it cannot start in a consistent state would make sense for these servers. Especially after the reload rewrite, we can keep the behavior as-is today for second and on recompiles, (that is, print the errors, but keep the old, known working configuration running), but then on startup, when there is no "known working configuration", simply shutting down the server instead.