I agree with that at some level. Yet there were tons of people saying up to the last minute that the sky was falling. That businesses hadn’t done enough. That we should “prep”, there won’t be food etc. It is the nature of people.
Any danger can be taken to extreme, but that doesn’t mean the danger is not real. To many people use the false argument of Y2K to prove that nothing untold can happen.
Look at it this way the Yellowstone Super Volcano could blow again at anytime, but just because Y2K didn’t happen does that mean Yellowstone won’t happen?