I think we need to recognize our privilege in living in well functioning western democracies.

I'm very worried about what ai will bring for those less fortunate in that regard.

You are thinking too much in terms of the stated requirements instead of what people actually want: good uptime and good debugability. Falling back to local logging means a blip in logging availability doesn't turn into all hands on deck everything is on fire. And it means that logs will very likely be available for any failures.

In other words it's good enough.

"Good uptime and good reliability but no guarantees" is just a good best effort system.

Good enough is literally "best effort delivery", you're just agreeing with them that this is ultimately a distributed systems problem and you either choose CP or AP.

This is a misunderstanding. To give an example. A perfect 1.e4 player needs a response to every possible move including 1.. f6. But he doesn't need to know how to respond to 1. d4 d5 because he avoids ever ending up in that position.