If "bad" is that things are only working 99.999% of the time, and every couple years someone borks their BGP config and fixes it in a few minutes, then bad soun

If "bad" is that things are only working 99.999% of the time, and every couple years someone borks their BGP config and fixes it in a few minutes, then bad sounds pretty good to me. In large complex systems, perfection isn't really possible.