Texas was speculating when their IT consultants advised them about the vulnerabilities of the Dominion/Smartmatic system?
Here's a simple question for you. If you were buying a used car, and your mechanic told you that in his professional opinion the engine was about to seize, would you dismiss the advice as speculation? After all, you can't REALLY be sure until it happens, right?
How about a security system for your office? If your IT consultant said that it may be possible to override your system by hacking, would you choose that system? If you did install the system, and if there was a theft from the office, could you ever be confident that it must have been someone who had authorized access, or someone improperly given access by someone who was authorized?
I'll provide the answer you won't want to give in a straightforward way. No one would trust the equipment that a reliable expert had analyzed with these vulnerabilities. If their opinion is sound (meaning uncontradicted by more persuasive expert opinion), States were wrong to use equipment and software that was not reliable as well as being incapable of being conclusively audited. Without even wondering about the motivations of bureaucrats who would subject citizens to such insecure systems, it's reasonable that a candidate and those who voted for him would have no confidence in such equipment. You can hardly claim there has been a "free and fair election" if reasonable people could lack confidence in the results.