Deleting a DB could have life-changing ramifications, depending on what's in the DB.

I used to write a lot of hardware-interfacing software.

The cool thing about writing things like device drivers, is that you can have some really kinetic bugs.

You have bad catastrophe management if deleting a database causes issues. I've seen databases accidentally deleted in production ... we just restored from a backup losing only a few ms of writes.

This stuff happens; sure it causes downtime, but it shouldn't have any real ramifications.