There is a palpable difference between downtime that results from your own activities (or incompetence), and downtime that you have zero control over as you wait, sitting on your hands, for your provider to return. It might mostly be an emotional pang, but it's one that inspires a resiliency and self-sufficiency mindset which can be harvested positively. Mild tangent: we can also self-host hardware and connect p2p, especially if NAT traversal and hole-punching keeps advancing. Then the only thing out of your hands is ISP. ....and for that there are always mesh networks.... We just don't have to accept this state of affairs or rationalize it.