Do you remember the pre-DDoS mitigation days? Botnets could easily bring down major, important sites and make them unavailable to users. This caused monetary lo

Do you remember the pre-DDoS mitigation days? Botnets could easily bring down major, important sites and make them unavailable to users. This caused monetary loss and could even cause life loss depending on the site. How is the previous state better than, well, not suffering from these problems?