The short answer is that it is only single operations that become safer. I don't want to undersell it though: some single operations require multiple steps (i.

The short answer is that it is only single operations that become safer. I don't want to undersell it though: some single operations require multiple steps (i.e. DROP SCHEMA in 5.7 needs to unravel all the tables it discovered and making sure a replica slave produces the same result. 8.0+ does this much cleaner). So it still remains important to have.