I worked with a lot of systems that had Y2K bugs, but in every single case the failure would have been quickly noticed and fixed (or not: living with buggy soft

I worked with a lot of systems that had Y2K bugs, but in every single case the failure would have been quickly noticed and fixed (or not: living with buggy software was pretty common). None of the systems were all that reliable in the first place. Software was even more buggy and unreliable than it is today. “Turn it off and on again” was the standard way of fixing things. Manual workarounds were very common. Yet, who knows how much money was spent hunting down and fixing Y2K bugs in systems that were not critical, and where not even dependable. I’d wager that for almost all the systems that a lot of money was spent bringing into compliance, it would have been cheaper and simpler just to let them fail, and deal with the problem afterwards, which would have been just another day at the office.