'cattle not pets' is not a valid argument when you're the owner and operator of the bare metal hardware. Do you also recommend that ISPs not replace failed fans in core and edge routers and optical transport systems? Let things with dual power supplies run for six months on one failed power supply?

Also you've clearly never interacted with cattle, sheep, goats, llamas or alpacas, which absolutely do get things like veterinary care and vaccinations. Large animal vet is a whole specialty and they spend lots of time working on animals other than horses. No trips to the vet???

This doesn't make sense to me. I work for a CDN with tens of thousands of servers in over a hundred data centers. We are always working to improve our turnaround time on repairing servers, even though we have thousands. Hard drive failure is one of the leading causes of server failures. Dead servers means diminished capacity, and capacity is what pays our bills.

Farmers absolutely have a vet who takes care of the cattle. I am not sure what you are on about.

The whole point of cattle-vs-pets is you are supposed to treat all the servers the same, not that you have to treat all of them poorly.