I don't like comparisons to worse things somewhere else. If a thing (here: plannability of trips) is not guaranteed, then that means of transport stops existing.
I now know 2 people who had sold their cars and said they will get a car again because their daily local train commutes stopped being plannable. It's almost the same with bike transport by DB. And - but whom am I telling this - cross-border rail is only for experts at this point.