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It was pretty obvious that the only things that were going to break are paper forms with "19__" printed on them.
There's actual counterexamples in the article, including the fact over 300 billion USD was spent to (mostly) prevent it.
I think that the test systems I helped set up for my clients made it pretty obvious that they would have run into a variety of problems had we not done something. Most issues would not have been business ending, but there were a couple that would have made life quite interesting for a few months.
Preventative action is always tough to justify, because it always looks unnecessary when it works.