While you might be right, I’m a bit skeptical. With millions of programs being revised for Y2K, not a single burp occured. You can say it is because programmers took it seriously. But when has new software EVER been free of bugs? Never. There are always hiccups. That not a single hiccup took place from a single bug in a single fix for Y2K tells me that for the most part, nothing was going to happen. If we were facing serious problems for Y2K with the old 2 digit dates, then the program fixes would have had some bugs and there would have been a few minor failures. Instead we had none. No failures whatsoever. That flawless level of service has never occurred in the history of programming. That can only mean that the buggy fixes were a non-issue, which tells me the whole thing was a non-issue.
The probable result of not fixing anything would have been a bunch of thrown error codes in the error files while everything continued to work as was.
“not a single burp occured. “
Fake news
It wasn’t 100%. You can find lists of failures. But fortunately the big potential disasters were averted.