It's still common. Nobody really cares if a site is offline for a few minutes. You try again later (or not, but so what). Heck, nobody cares if they are offline for half the day, it gets fixed and at the end of it it's just a post-mortem for the nerds to read and a shrug and life goes on for everyone else. People vastly overestimate the importance of anything that is on the public internet. None of it is life-critical (if it is, it certainly should not depend on an internet connection or a web server being up).

Correct. Things are breaking all the time. If you’re not a hospital or air traffic control, nobody is going to die if your website goes down.

There’s a time and a place for heroics, but we go to it for shit that doesn’t really matter, or worse, allow the culture of heroics to cover up the real problems that are much harder to fix.