The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
It's Anti-Fragile. If it breaks all the time, everybody is highly experienced at patching together new workarounds, mechanisms for fail over are in place and regularly tested, and there's whole classes of corner case bugs that get flushed out to be stomped (or nurtured as cherished pets) instead of breeding in the dark and jumping out at you all at once.<p>How can the "Internet routes around failure" be trusted without testing? Everything needs regular exercise or it atrophies.