I’ve thought through this as well. I’m not saying your conclusion is wrong, but if I get to where I really need backups to all this, there are solutions available. And I’ve had to learn lot more about logging and alerting to make sure my services stay up. But that time spent is repaid many times over with solutions that I understand. There is a time trade off but it’s usually a few hours of me learning “oh this is how you solve this” and then I don’t worry about it anymore.

In my experience, cloud at scale has ALWAYS required someone with a pager willing/paid to get up at 3am on Christmas Eve. So someone’s time is being used no matter.