It’s interesting, we want reliability, but too much reliability makes something invisible, and then failures become catastrophic because there is no expertise in the organization.
Death and birth are evolved. Micro-organisms don't do it. A few multicellular organisms don't either (e.g. there's a kind of immortal jellyfish, but what it does is periodically revert to an amorphous mass and then grow back into a jellyfish.)
True reliability requires Chaos Monkeys
The thing about reliability is that not every single thing needs to be ‘reliable’. The reliability comes from knowing the failure points. Some issues you may not be able to fix right away but simply knowing why something fails is more reliable than not knowing. And that’s the scariest problem I’ve seen. Not knowing failures.
Moreso than this: redundancy.
It’s the same with wildfires. The obsession and panic around small fires makes me cringe.