[bongodongobob]

That's nonsense. Orgs spent time and resources on it because they grabbed a test server and demonstrated it caused problems. It's not some weird ethereal untestable bug. They set the dev server to a minute before midnight and went "oh shit".

[pixl97]

That and quite often the problems started showing up years before 2000 itself. "Hey, the scheduler is giving me a meeting 80 years ago" type weirdness when it crossed the boundry.