I never said it's "not going to impact anyone", I said it's not comparable.
"Denial of service" is just not a security bug on the same level as "zomg my credit card is stolen". I have argued this many times before, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39377795 – It's easy to knock most sites offline regardless just by flooding it with traffic, don't need long-term plans like this (which are likely to be detected before it even has effect).
> This does happen and break people
I have never heard about a deliberate attack using this method.
This does happen and break people. You usually don’t hear about it (except on the SRE side) because it is so obvious when it happens to someone they really don’t like talking about it.