Yep. We say cattle not pets, but even cattle often need personal attention for one reason or another. It doesn’t mean you’ll never need that option in your back pocket
if you didn't have a multi-user operating system running on every node that basically demands this, because of its complexity and fragility, and you had the necessary introspection to look at memory usage and open sockets, and disk bandwidth, and everything else you might need to mange those processes, then the utility of your escape hatch - which also is complicated and fragile, becomes negative.