I'm the opposite. Having many years of experience writing software personally and professionally before version control systems became ubiquitous, I have way too many horror stories to tell...

* damage done by a single careless command

* coding around in circles because you forgot that you changed this one little thing in a file somewhere and now you've made a mountain of irreversible (without VCS) changes to your codebase

And so many other nasty things that coding without a seatbelt brings.