Well, there's nothing "inevitable". It's a computer system, not the fullfilment of some prophecy.
You can have an attack vector giving you access to a layer, without guaranteed magic access to other layers.
But even if it "just delays the inevitable", that's a very good thing, as it can be time used to patch the issue.
Not to mention, any kind of cryptography just "delays the inevitable" too. With enough time it can be broken with brute force - might not even take millions of years, as we could get better at quantum computing in the next 50 or 100.