I'm not just talking about tools either. You mentioned redundancies and contingency plans. Layoffs have stripped workforces to barebones headcounts. How can you have redundancy when one sick man-day reduces your eng'g team by 50%?
> Which begs the question is Software Eng'g/Development a mature profession?
For every sense of the word pair "less mature," including, but not limited to, "less responsible for consequences of actions."
The equivalent for a dev is laptop, another AI, mobile hotspot and work at a cafe/library.
Microsoft being down is like having a contingency for a tornado.
I'm probably misreading your point, so, apologies, but I'd still just like to say:
Microsoft is a profit-driven, human-run corporation that mostly offers business infrastructure services. I think contingency planning for Microsoft service failures is almost entirely unlike contingency planning for adverse weather events?
Sounds like a normal thing to do if you live in Kansas. And perhaps we are all about to start living in the software equivalent of Kansas?
Of course proof by analogy is silly anyways, my email going down is not nearly as bad as a patient's medical equipment going down.
And even that only does so much, it was 45 years ago but my Grandmother had a stroke on the operating table because the power went out and generators didn't kick on until someone could run and manually start them because the autostart failed.