You and I are now going to pay the price for their neglect. Mr. Anderson's language was apocalyptic. Mr. Anderson warned of complacency in 1986. The gut reaction to this problem is to hope that it will go away. Somebody else will fix it.
None are prepared to do anything about it.
It shows why there is no possibility of compliance, and why there was none in 1986. There was none from the day that programmers adopted the 2-digit century standard. Habit, cost considerations, and lethargy had taken over long before 1986. Habit, money, and lethargy are powerful social forces.