People with HA production experience can easily vibe with points made by Broccoli Man. Yes, these things make a lot of sense if you actually want to get code ru

People with HA production experience can easily vibe with points made by Broccoli Man. Yes, these things make a lot of sense if you actually want to get code running reliably, especially at scale (organizational and userbase). But we must not forget how this can look from the point of view of someone who hasn't had to deal with a page due to an entire datacenter going offline, who's not aware of all the hundreds of small things that can go wrong by doing the 'obvious' thing. I think the video is more of a way to poke fun at the optics of this (and some of the overly arcane stuff involved), rather than at the idea of high availability being useless. At least that's how I've always felt about it, a way to remind SREs to respect their internal users (simplify! automate! document!) and that what makes sense to them might look ridiculous to others.