If the Times goes down because the engineers are on strike for a few weeks or months, the engineers were not very good at their jobs.

I honestly wouldn't expect many to notice, all told. If Google can't index them so that headlines can be shown on searches, I'd expect larger losses.

That said, if the state of the tech there is such that a strike will cause it to immediately stop working... that doesn't exactly speak well for the work they have done.

Unless they are allowed to shut that stuff down as part of their strike? That feels very unlikely to me; but I don't know.