As a career Info Tech person - Y@K forced us to fix all of our systems and give them a good over haul tune up that I feel the zenith of computer reliability was 1998-1999.
Things have been down hill ever since. Rapid Application Development methodologies result in systems that were not tested to consider all possible outcomes, hence they fail and people (user group) have grown to expect that machines die, re-boot, won’t down load, won’t let you enter correct data.
Cheap hardware has given us more storage and faster machines, but resulted in bloated software that runs slower than 20 years ago.
Y2K was not a hoax, but the possible negative outcomes of the design flaw of a 2 year date were significantly over blown and hyped by hardware, software & services vendors. The problem was always going to basically be that your 3-year report was not going to sort right. Or grabbing 3 years of data was going to struggle for a few years till the 1990s aged out and they have now, so we could go back to 2 year dates if we felt like it.
And still, sometimes, our "Shift" keys play tricks on us :-)
Agreed, I worked on Y2K, and the incredible HYPE about it was something of a hoax. People making millions off of fear mongering. While some banked millions, plenty of us worked behind the scenes to make sure sh*t didn't hit the fan.