Hot take: most people, in most industries, should be able to tolerate a day of downtime in the sense that there are still useful, productive things to do even when all the computers die.
The fact that the world relies on four 9's of availability and throws a hissy fit whenever there are outages is an antipattern.
And also, people should get a snow day every once in a while.
I've often wondered how much unplanned downtime is caused by the aversion to planned downtime.
Like if Exchange Online went down for an hour every Sunday for maintenance, and they made their network configuration change then, there would have been no cascading failure.
This is how you get enshittification. It'll never stop at a day every once in a while, unless we hold those with billions to a higher standard, instead of giving them excuses while the layoffs continue.
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