While my first intuition was to agree with you, there's certainly an upcoming generation of developers who have never operated their own root servers and the abstraction level in the cloud nowadays is so high it makes you easily forget that "Droplets" are just VMs are just servers running software. On the other hand, hardware reliability has increased in recent years due to RAID, fully redundant networking & power adaptors, you name it.
These facts combined certainly make it easy for the younger generation to forget that redundancy and backup still don't replace each other (never did).
This seems like the wrong lesson is being taught though somewhere - the delete button is right there. It should be much more obvious that is very easy to make a server go away.
These facts combined certainly make it easy for the younger generation to forget that redundancy and backup still don't replace each other (never did).