Would you rather be attacked by 1,000 wasps or 1 dog? A thousand paper cuts or one light stabbing? Global outages are bad but the choice isn’t global pain vs local pleasure. Local and global both bring pain, with different, complicated tradeoffs.

Cloudflare is down and hundreds of well paid engineers spring into action to resolve the issue. Your server goes down and you can’t get ahold of your Server Person because they’re at a cabin deep in the woods.